17-04-2023, 11:35 PM
(17-04-2023, 08:55 PM)ViridianFan Wrote: Thought I’d take a look at what people were saying on Twitter about this mornings change. I have to say I’ve not seen on there a single positive tweet yet.I'd be very interested in the twitter search words you used for that.
A lot of people asking why it was on three channels as well as 5live. The general consensus seems to be tuned into a news channel to watch the news not to watch a radio show.
There was also a few interesting comments about the reduction of UK content with one comment being that it feels more like a US news channel with bits of uk human interest stories squeezed in during ad breaks.
Whilst people are more likely to post a complaint than something positive but you’d expect to see some positive comments. It’s also fair to assume these aren’t all pres fans. It’s clear from some of the tweets that they are people who have not been following the details of the merger.
There’s been many comments on here that the general public won’t notice and that they can get their news other places but it’s clear from the tweets I’ve been reading that people are not happy, are noticing that stories the old channel would have run aren’t being included and there’s much more world slant.
I will say that I thought it was a decent show but it is pointless having it on three different channel and it’s not an replacement for what went before. Personally when I’m watching the news I’m not really interested in what Steve from Sheffield thinks, equally I’m not interested listening to talking heads giving their opinion.
Bbc Nicky Campbell is search bar , latest, returns a handful of comments today, with some very digitalspy looking accounts and some downright odd ones with born on this day endless tweets; some odd bot looking ones that jump from US politics to UK with huge gaps between random posts.
My search doesn't show anything relevant from anyone who looks remotely like an typical member of the public (tweets on a range of topics, has opinions on events rather than retreats, or behaves organically)
So no, 'a lot' of people didn't comment, probably more people liked your post that gave negative opinion TODAY about the show on BBC News Channel
Perhaps your search terms reveals more, please share (also might reveal twitter algorithm biases, which itself is interesting)