61Fresh Aggregates Boston-Related News, As Tweeted By Boston Residents
Created by the Boston Globe’s R&D group and funded by a Knight Foundation grant, 61Fresh is a crowd-driven news aggregator that uniquely utilizes Bostonians’ tweets to source and rank stories by popularity.
Dan McLaughlin, from the @globelab team, told Twitter,
“Our primary goal is to highlight Boston news that Bostonians are talking about. So we follow Twitter users in the Boston metro area, and look at the links they’re tweeting.”
61Fresh draws from 500+ Boston-area news sources to publish a real-time picture of the latest in the Boston region.
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