Twitter reacts to changes in Sky News' social media guidelines
On Tuesday, the Guardian broke the story that broadcast news organization Sky News had sent out new social media guidelines to its staff. Most notably, the new rules told employees not to retweet information from other Twitter users who are not employed by Sky News.
- The Guardian story by Josh Halliday.
Sky News clamps down on Twitter useSky News has told its journalists not to repost information from any Twitter users who are not an employee of the broadcaster. An email t...- Before the Guardian story was posted, rumors swirled on Twitter. The lone voice answering these questions was Halliday.
@amyllawson Thanks Amy. If the claims about @SkyNews are true, it's very strange don't you think? #skynewstweets #skynews- Anyone know if the actual text of the #skynews Twitter ban email has been published? #skynewstweets
- Once the story was confirmed, reactions in the Twitterverse loudly expressed unhappiness and disbelief with the news.
Sky News' Twitter rules for its journalists are like woah bit.ly/wwPp7E Very anti-social social media rules
@journodave Sky News did incredible work during the Arab Spring, especially through Twitter. That's why this makes little sense.
Unfortunate that Sky News has taken such a narrow, old school view on social media: bit.ly/zZi0nj
I thought they were joking, but Sky News actually told reporters not to retweet outside sources or anything off-topic soup.ps/ABPuAJ
@fieldproducer I hope you have explained to you superiors that banning RTs is a bloody stupid idea
