Can Twitter make money out of breaking news

Can Twitter make money out of breaking news or is it a PR platform?

http://www.theguardian.com/media/media-blog/2014/oct/12/twitter-breaking-news-pr-vivian-schiller

This story/ article is about what’s going on with Twitter. There is an on-going struggle within Twitter over whether it should largely be a conduit for journalism or PR.And whether a technology company, even one with 271 million monthly users, believes it can make money out of breaking news. Twitter’s behaviour over the last few months suggests it doesn’t think it can.Twitter has always seemed bigger than it actually is because of the type of people – celebrities, sports stars and politicians as well as newshounds – who use it.

Key Points:

·         8% of people were using Twitter for news

·         Facebook, with 1.2 billion users, and is twitters social media rival.

·         271 million monthly users on Twitter

My opinion about this story is that Twitter has the capability to both entertain and give its audience real life news stories as the internet is where the audience now spend most of their free time, as there has been digital developments where these stories can be accessed.