A #cardgame, some hashtags and a pound cake: Our insta-Twitter review of Frontline’s ‘Card Game’
Tuesday night, PBS’s Frontline aired “The Card Game.” The documentary let loose a flurry of information about the credit card industry, and the CreditCards.com editorial team, along with some friends, were right there to absorb and comment on it during our first ever Twitter-periment.
Over the course of the one-hour show, which you can watch online here, about 170 tweets were broadcasted with the term #cardgame in them. That term, known as a hashtag, let us track people talking about the Frontline piece.
In total, there have been 213 tweets about the topic from 30 different participants since Nov. 23. Joining in the conversation was the CreditCards.com team – @takingcharge, @jeremymsimon, @connie_p, @mattsnews and @tylermetzger – along with a wide-ranging cast that included @DianeBuxton of WGBH-FM, Boston’s public broadcast station, consumer credit author @marcyesque, finance bloggers @CardAnalysis and @WayTooHigh, and other individuals, including @tigerbeat and @rebornmex. <