Bloomberg.com adds Twitter function

Bloomberg.com has a redesigned “breaking news” module, complete with a Tweet button.

Mathew Yurow, social media editor for Bloomberg News, writes, “It’s a given: Social media has changed the way the world gets its news. Chances are, by the time you’ve read a story on a web site or in the paper, the news has been floating around the Twittersphere for several hours.

“As a breaking news organization, we understand the power of sharing news as it happens, and are constantly striving to deliver important stories to you faster. That’s why we’re excited to introduce this new feature that will not only help you get a jump on the news, but will put the power to broadcast it in your hands.

“If the story in the ‘breaking news’ module is already available online, we will provide you with a link. If it is still being written, you can send your followers to our homepage, which we’ll update with new information as we get it.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.