Twitter is the mole inside the Olympic Village
18 July 2012 1:31 AM GMT
These will be a different Olympics. Quite different from all those we have seen before. The secret life in the Olympic village is likely to be revealed to the world more than ever before.
Not that the TV channels have got any secret cameras installed inside the bedrooms at the Village, but it is social networking site Twitter that has opened a new platform for the athletes to reveal the secrets themselves, sometimes supplemented with pictures.
Athletes started arriving into London on Monday and straightaway the media did not even have to run and make its way around London’s chaotic traffic in rain to get a peek into what all happened.
But some teams, including the British team, while allowing use of social media, have laid down some grounds for tweeting and appealed to think before they tweet.
The social media vehicle revealed stories albeit through 140 characters and a few pictures - about missing kit, small and uncomfortable beds and requests for lengthening of mattresses and transport vehicles losing way enroute to the Olympic Village, all revealed to the world in real time, reported London’s Evening Standard.
Not that the TV channels have got any secret cameras installed inside the bedrooms at the Village, but it is social networking site Twitter that has opened a new platform for the athletes to reveal the secrets themselves, sometimes supplemented with pictures.
Athletes started arriving into London on Monday and straightaway the media did not even have to run and make its way around London’s chaotic traffic in rain to get a peek into what all happened.
But some teams, including the British team, while allowing use of social media, have laid down some grounds for tweeting and appealed to think before they tweet.
The social media vehicle revealed stories albeit through 140 characters and a few pictures - about missing kit, small and uncomfortable beds and requests for lengthening of mattresses and transport vehicles losing way enroute to the Olympic Village, all revealed to the world in real time, reported London’s Evening Standard.
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