The role of social media in setting of press's agenda: Twitter case

Many events occur in every moment of our daily life. Which of these events to be presented to the public and which ones are on the agenda and launched the media watchdogs called on media professionals to decide threshold. With other media professionals to realize the existence of social media today emerges as a force that affects all the news networks. Most of the time does not receive the agenda of social media events, not to go on the agenda of the people, are not considered contentious, uncritical affairs. In this context the aim of the present study is one of the social media networks, Twitter's most important to determine the role as being the source of the written press. Covering work on the basis of the first five in the 3-month period of circulation, Newspapers and borne on Twitter News research were covered. Thus, Twitter's role in creating of agenda the print media enshrine. Key Words : 1. Social Media 2. Microblog 3. Twitter 4. Agenda setting