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Tweetminster, a start-up that tracks MPs and prospective candidates on Twitter, has launched a new aggregation service for tracking UK media news. The Media Watch channel is the latest launch for Tweetminster, which introduced six other verticals including health, economy and environment, last week.

The homepage of the channel has a "livestream" that includes all Twitter accounts of mainstream media sources and updates as they update. A top stories section shows the most tweeted URLs from these sources in the past six hours.

These options are also currently available for six individual news sources and under the group 'other media'. The subject-specific channels also show trending words on Twitter and a 'tweetwall' of influential people on Twitter related to that topic.

"The idea behind channels is to make it easier for people to follow news, see what's trending in each topic or within each source, and also make it easier for people to connect with those driving the conversations. The longer term goal is an interactive wire - we'll be developing further channels around issues, networks, events and locations and also soon releasing APIs and feeds," Alberto Nardelli, Tweetminster founder, told Journalism.co.uk. Last year Tweetminster teamed up with the Independent to launch a new tracking service for politicians and political news on Twitter and during the 2010 election campaign launched a dedicated UK election site .

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Laura Oliver
Laura Oliver
Laura Oliver is a freelance journalist, a contributor to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, co-founder of The Society of Freelance Journalists and the former editor of Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)

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