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The remaining percent - over 60%- are part from the dialogues that the journalists
support with other members of the community of twitter and that without a context they
do not provide finished information if the person do not acceded to the Timeline of that
conversation.
The previous point suggest that journalists get in contact with their followers, but in a
high percentage of the them the contact is a reply of a previous tweet. The figure is a
very similar at a chat service.
About the intention of the tweets, the global analysis from the 10 more influencial
accounts proves the idea that twitter is use for supporting dialogues that are only
understand in the context of a Timeline (40% of the tweets).
25% of the analyzed tweets are only informative and 12% are the opinion of the
journalists about current affairs. Only the 4% of the tweets respond to the category of
reporting, a very insignificant number.
Profile of the Chilean media in Twitter
The presence of the Chilean media in Twitter also has some certain interesting
characteristics. In the first place, as can be observed in Figure 9, only 10% of the 72
Chilean media analyzed in Twitter belong to TV and 20% to Radio. The press – either
in hardcopy or on the Web – lead the pack with 70% of domestic influence. Our
Figure 9. Distribution according media (10
most influential media in Twitter)
attention is drawn, to say the least, to the fact that whilst the most influential Chilean
journalists work in television, it is the press that dominates their influence in Twitter, In
that sense then, also, worth mentioning is that the Klout Score, both for the journalists
as well as the most influential media, is fairly similar.
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