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A Twitterview is a combination of the terms Twitter, a popular microblogging platform, and interview. It is a type of interview for which the medium restricts the interviewer and interviewee to short-form responses. Twitter, from which the phrase was derived, limits users to 140 characters. The concise style of this form of interview encourages participants to be more direct with their statements. Unlike traditional interviews, a Twitterview allows the public to join in on the conversation and become participants themselves. It is typically conducted with a reliance on hashtags, marking the subject, so that online browsers may collectively search, view and track the ongoing dialogue.[1]
Although some sources say ABC News Correspondent George Stephanopoulos is credited with conducting the first official Twitterview in March 2009, when he spoke with Senator John McCain[2], the truth is there had been twitterviews with such name before. One of the first was conducted in English and later translated to Spanish by Alain Ochoa at Diariomedico.com[3] -a Spanish healthcare news site- when he spoke to blogger/entrepreneur Bertalan Meskó (@berci) on December 10, 2008[4][5]. Another earlier Twitterview was hosted by a blogger named Carl Ocab interviewing John Chow[6].
Music blogger Derek Michael Sheldon from The World As I Der See It! [7] created the first pictorial transformation of the twitterview in an article with music artist Jann Arden.[8] Derek Michael Sheldon transformed the interview platform to an easy to read visual presentation utilizing images of the actual Twitter timeline feed. He continues to be the leading blogger to use the Twitterview format with musicians.
A nice tool to use to do Twitterviews is Tweeterview[9], a online tool to let users do interviews via twitter.
[edit] References
- ^ "Saab Twitterview - #asksaab". 2009-04-07. http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23asksaab.
- ^ "Twitterview - Senator John McCain". 2009-03-16. http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/politics&id=6708569.
- ^ "Diario Medico.com". http://www.diariomedico.com.
- ^ "Berci Twitterview - #DM1". 2008-12-10. http://scienceroll.com/2008/12/12/twitterview-the-future-of-medicine-in-140-characters/.
- ^ "Laika's MedLibLog talks about Berci Twitterview". 2008-12-11. http://laikaspoetnik.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/twitterview-with-berci-of-scienceroll/.
- ^ "Carl Ocab interviewing John Chow". 2009-02-08. http://www.carlocab.com/what-is-twitterview-and-how-i-exploited-it/.
- ^ "The World As I Der See It". http://www.worldasiderseeit.com.
- ^ "World As I Der See It! Jann Arden Twitterview:New Album Free & Her Life!". 2009-08-17. http://www.worldasiderseeit.com/home/2009/8/17/jann-arden-twitterview-new-album-free-her-life.html.
- ^ "Tweeterview Using Tweets to interview". 2010-08-17. http://www.tweeterview.com.
http://neverenoughnotes.co.uk/wordpress/2010/05/19/twitterview-your-pretend-boyfriend/
