CNN Doubles Down on Twitter-Based Reporting With Dataminr Deal

If you are a Twitter user, you have been contributing to CNN's reporting for the past few months whether you want to or not.

The news media outlet announced on Wednesday that it had partnered with analytics firm Dataminr and Twitter to develop a tool that alerts journalists to breaking stories and trends. CNN has been using the program under and exclusive agreement, and said at an event that the program had helped alert its reporters to various stories including explosions in Al-Mansour, Iraq and reports that Justin Bieber had been arrested.