The New York Times surfaced the tweets of its staffers in London during the Olympics onto page which acted as a real-time news environment for many of the competitions. For this live news page, the journalists didn't use their Twitter handles but tweeted as @LondonLive.
In this inteview, Alexis Mainland, Editor for Social Media, talks about the Twitter project. She says that @LondonLive attracted 50,000 followers.
In our first interview with Mainland, she speaks about the emergence of Google Hangouts as live video news platform.
According to a report published in The Times, Twitter claims 150 million Olympics tweets.
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| 1 | United States | 46 | 29 | 29 |
| 2 | China | 38 | 27 | 23 |
| 3 | Russia | 24 | 26 | 32 |
| 4 | Great Britain | 29 | 17 | 19 |
| 5 | Germany | 11 | 19 | 14 |
| 6 | Japan | 7 | 14 | 17 |
