They stand, silent, in salute to their brother, #CHP Officer Kenyon Youngstrom. #CHPfuneral twitter.com/DMJreports/sta…
— Daniel M. Jimenez (@DMJreports) September 13, 2012
I’ve seen two excellent blog posts recently about livetweeting funerals:
- Deborah Petersen, a Digital First Media colleague who is Social Media and iPad Editor for the Bay Area News Group, blogged about her colleagues’ Twitter coverage of the funeral of a California Highway Patrol officer shot in the line of duty.
- Mathew Ingram of GigaOm blogged about livetweeting the funeral of a friend.
not sure if this is appropriate or weird, or possibly both, but I am going to live-tweet my friend @michaelocc‘s funeral #remembermocc
— Mathew Ingram (@mathewi) October 20, 2012
Mathew is a journalist but was livetweeting as a tribute to his friend. But the anger you can read in the comments on his post underscores the sensitivity of this practice for journalists (who usually aren’t tweeting about our friends’ funerals). Someone named Rich commented: (more…)
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