Royal Wedding Watch: No Tweeting Allowed

Just to continue with the Royal Wedding's presence in the Twitterworld, I felt a brief update was necessary.  While correspondents from all the major news conglomerates will be outside the gates tweeting as fast as their fingers can move.  But as for those lucky enough to score an invitation, don't expect any activity on their Twitter accounts.  Although Scotland Yard has clarified that the rumored cell-signal blocking device will not be used, cell phones have still been banned from the ceremony.

Information came from a Washington Post report. 

Royal Wedding Watch: The Naysayers

#RoyalWedding, #rw11, #rw2011, #proudtobebritsh and more.  All are hash tags created as a result of the wedding between Kate and William that will take place on April 29.  And some of them have started trending long before the nuptials are set to take place.  But one does not fit with the rest: #royalpain.  Earlier today, the Washington Post put out a message into the Tweetosphere asking for the underrepresented portion of the community to respond.

While it seems as though The WP was looking for genuine opinions of disapproval for the Wedding (and they did get a handful of those) what they got more was a slap on the hands.  People criticized them, and other news sites, for devoting too much attention to the wedding when there are other, more pressing, issues at hand.      

Online options for the news allow for even the less than important news to be published.  And while it doesn't take up print space, it is consuming time of reporters.  And people are taking notice and voicing their opinions on this new approach to reporting and what gets reported.  

A giant scale Lego replica of the royal ceremony? Seriously? (AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

Royal Wedding Watch

Kate Middleton and Prince William are getting married.  But if you have read any newspaper, magazine, social media, or just been in public over the past month you probably couldn't avoid knowing that.  It has been a main topic of conversation on Twitter for weeks and most major news sites like The Washington Post, The New York Times and Huffington Post all have dedicated a section to coverage of The Royal Wedding.  

It is as big a deal in America as it is in Britain.  But is the coverage spurred by Americans' infatuation or the other way around?  Every facet of the wedding has been reported in every different medium.  Open a newspaper, log on to Twitter, Facebook, or turn on the TV and you can see every detail (available) about Kate's dress, the cake, speculation about honeymoon destinations, what Harry and Pippa will be wearing.  A majority of this extended coverage is through social media or online versions of major newspapers.  With limited space in the printed press, only highly important and timely news is printed.  But with no space constraints in the world wide web anything is possible.  Stay updated for more coverage of the Royal Wedding!