PBS reporting:
An average of 155 million tweets are posted on the social networking site Twitter each day, the social media giant tweeted last week. In just one minute, an average of 35 hours of video were uploaded to YouTube as of November, and over half of American adults alone have Facebook accounts.
These social media sites are being used as new tools for journalists, protesters and everyday people looking for the news. However, as they grow, the amount of content is overwhelming. Not to mention, how do you know what is real and what is not?
That's where the startup Storyful comes in, Editorial Director David Clinch told Hari Sreenivasan.
Storyful is a social media news tool created by journalists that finds the most relevant, real and interesting video, tweets and posts coming from people in the middle of events around the world. A team of journalists work with Storyful's "behind-the-scenes" software to find, verify and curate all of this into playlists on YouTube, on their website and for Storyful Pro, a paid service for news organizations.
Clinch described the service as a type of social media news agency that provides lists of sources and content for a price to their pro subscribers. However, lots of content is in front of their pro paywall.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/04/social-media-curation-tool-separates-news-from-noise.html
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