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PA will report 2007 Budget in Second Life and on Twitter

Posted by Martin Stabe on 15 March 2007 at 11:57
Tags: Mobile Phones, Press Association, secondlife, twitter

The Press Association has become the latest media organisation to set up shop in the virtual world Second Life with a “Budget Info-Station” that will provide coverage of the 2007 Budget.

A new PA service will give residents of the virtual world live updates from the House of Commons as Gordon Brown announces details of what is likely to be his final Budget as Chancellor of the Exchequer.

The news agency will also be using the SMS social network platform Twitter to deliver news of the Budget.

A number of media organsiations have already set up virtual newsrooms in Second Life. The most ambitious effort to date is from Reuters, which has a full-time correspondent in the virtual world. Headlines from the BBC, CNN, Google News, and several other news organisation are distributed on Twitter via user-produced mashups.

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Tags: Mobile Phones, Press Association, secondlife, twitter

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  1. Stephen Newton |  16 March 2007 at 1:27pm

    Isn’t that all a bit first life?

  2. Twitter - A study - Licen&hellip |  19 March 2007 at 11:47pm

    [...] available, such as the BBC, CNN. The Press Association is going to be feeding headlines from the UK budget into Twitter, as well as Second Life. Politicians are also using it, as one of the many ways they [...]

  3. Frantic micro-blogging at&hellip |  24 April 2007 at 9:10pm

    [...] Interesting you should point that out, because it’s exactly what the Press Association did on the day : http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/fleetstreet/2007/03/15/pa-will-report-2007-budget-in-second-life-and... [...]

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