Media publicity


Twitter scores $48m worth of press in a single month

They may not have figured out a viable pay model yet, but the raging flood of press coverage poured on media-darling Twitter generated the company $48 million in free publicity last month alone, according to a news-monitoring service.

Could the real Mick Keelty please stand up?

Last night a man calling himself Mick Keelty and claiming to be the AFP Commissioner told a Sydney audience that he wants a black-out of all media coverage of terrorism investigations and cases. This is also the Mick Keelty who revels in media publicity about terrorism cases, writes Greg Barns.