Breaking News Twitter Feed, which was set up by 19 year old Michael van Poppel, was sold to Microsoft’s news channel MSNBC.
Michael said that he had set it up as a hobby to do in his spare time, with about 30,000 followers. It then grew rapidly to over 1,500,000, getting about 3,000-4,000 more followers a day. They will no longer write Twitter updates, but provide a subscriber based news service, which is meant to launch in Jan 2010. It will focus on news in the US.
