European Media in Twitter

I took a list of all European media, from TV stations to newspapers, and tracked them on Twitter. Here’s a collection of their profiles, which you can see on Flickr. 

The Financial Times, UK, profile in Twitter.
Click on the image to see more profiles in my Flickr page. 

I wanted to know which countries have more media on Twitter and try to figure out whether it is related to the percentage of the population with Internet access, economic level or the development of their news sites.

Among the countries with more media on Twitter are United Kingdom, France, Ireland and Spain. I found Italy, Norway, Switzerland and Germany with only one media to follow online. 

Germany and United Kingdom, for example, are among the European countries with larger percentages of the population with Internet access, however, I didn’t find German media in Twitter, while almost all the Brittish one are there for users to follow them. 

Spain is among the coutries with less Internet access, but all the newspapers have a profile in Twitter and some television channels are starting to develop them.

This makes me think that it is not so much related to internet access but to the use readers do of the Internet, how deep they navigate and how well connected they want to be to their media. 

 

~ by onewayoranother on June 15, 2008.