I have not seen Steemit used for breaking news, if we could have a concept of hashtag on steemit yet, here for people to follow.It works well on twitter, even the reddit livestream feed is very helpful. Bottom line is , live events bring in a lot of users on to the platfrom, who otherwise wouldn't have.
With the current steemit functionality - we can just post it under a certain tag. What I have done is created a tag 'live' for this post.
It could be as simple as creating a story under live tag
- Live tag should be treated similar to the current 'trending' catetogory so users can see any live news breaking.
- Voting should around content, not just timing of the event. Post. I would hate someone make lots of money just for posting a link( . But anyone local in the affected area can provide valuable insight or in other words first hand reporting. On other media, they don't have a effective way of monetising it.
- This could start real discussion, commentary on live events.
- Live streaming also a possibility.
- It could bring a lot of users to steemit - around breaking stories news.
I think this could be a valuable feature on steemit. Something to ponder!