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Interesting Stuff 2008-11-10 09:17am on 11 Nov 2008 Oh and one last thing, as with all crowd sourced information I understand that opening up a Back Channel to audiences has certain moderation requirements for organisations such as the BBC (especially in the wake of the Brand/Ross affair). I've conveniently side stepped that at the moment to get the discussion going.

Andrew
Interesting Stuff 2008-11-10 09:08am on 11 Nov 2008 Hi Dave,

It's really interesting to see that you're actively looking at how to use services like Twitter to connect better with audiences.

While I agree that Twitter can be used to create an interesting narrative outside of the programming schedule - a fantastic example of which are the tweets posted by Stephen Fry (@stephenfry) about his exploits while filming (he's currently in Africa). I also wonder what your thoughts are in terms of using Twitter as a back channel for audiences, enabling us to discuss and effect live broadcasts perhaps even making the discussion/comments available on screen via digital services should the viewer wish. I can see great potential for this for sporting events (everyone's a pundit) and for programming such as Question Time etc.

As it happens, your audience already use SMS to interact to a certain degree with broadcasts, most of which we never see or can comment upon, perhaps you could use Twitter to open this up too with users sending txt's to a twitter account rather than to the great big bottomless BBC SMS bucket in the sky. That way Twitter could be seen as complementing existing services and by allowing SMS interaction, negates any discussions about barriers to entry for those who do not have or are not in front of a computer.

Anyway, that's my two pennies worth. You've mentioned @cruickers and @jobadge but I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on how you think it could be used.

Best,

Andrew
Listen again to BBC radio shows on the iPhone 1:33pm on 23 Sep 2008 You guys continue to rock my world :)

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