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March 16th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Mimi, you have a typo in richardhowe.com
March 16th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
i’m following dick, too.
my twitter is twitter.com/qwerty4life, if you want to check it out.
Also, here’s some good advice on how to become more ‘followed.’ http://feliciaday.com/blog/finding-people-to-follow-on-twitter
The best suggestion is to build your own network. Let twitter track down who on your email account is on twitter and send out requests. Then invite those who don’t have it =)
There’s a lot of things that twitter is good for that blogs aren’t - like posting some interesting article or picture you found, but didn’t think enough people would be interested on your blog to actually read… or that you weren’t actually interested in enough to write in depth, but wanted to spread it around anyway.
March 17th, 2009 at 7:25 am
Thanks Tom. It has been corrected.
M.
March 17th, 2009 at 11:57 am
I am never twittering. There have got to be some aspects to life untouched by technology, and I also don’t do “trendy.” Also, I still hate the “sound bite” nature of twitter.
On twitter, bah humbug!
March 17th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
Lynne, you sound like a newspaper executive, circa 1995, talking about the internet. They turned up their collective noses at last decade’s disruptive technology and now they’re neck-and-neck with GM and Chrysler in a race to legacy-industry oblivion.
March 18th, 2009 at 8:42 am
I hate to say this, but Twitter is not the future of journalism in my estimation. It has nothing to do with my not embracing new technologies - I blog, podcast (in multiple different ways), use you-tube and other video hosting sites liberally, along with chat, facebook, and a dozen other things. Hell, my whole business is about new media.
But Twitter has many inherent problems, and its benefits can be had elsewhere. I can be just as instantaneous and on-the-spot with my PDA and my blog, for instance, but I am not limited to 144 characters. I can report from anywhere with a laptop or a device. People can subscribe to reading via RSS, facebook (if I ever bother to set that up, which I haven’t yet, but I could) on any enabled device, and the new version of this site will have automatic ways to post an article to FB, Digg, what have you.
However much Twitter might be the flavor of the moment, and it is, I will admit, it is not going to save journalism. On the contrary, the signal-to-noise ratio (ie good stuff to crap) on Twitter is deafening. I have facebook statuses and email and everything else for stalking my friends’ day to day lives, thanks, I don’t need even more inane blather cluttering up my life, and that is largely what I see Twitter being used for. Now, you and the Sun reporter and others are doing other things with it, and that’s very interesting, but that doesn’t mean it’s more than that.
In fact, I find it severely annoying, these breaking-news Twitters. There was the one that Mimi talked about, about the teacher being arrested in Tewksbury. Great. Arrested for what? What was the charge, how long was the investigation, could I get anything detailed about it? Nope. Can’t say in 144 characters.
We already have a sound bite culture. I’d rather not contribute to that, myself. Sure, it’s entertaining, and maybe you find out the general gist (one sentence) of what’s going on a little bit faster than say, reading the blogs or an online newspaper. And regarding its use on the Sun’s breaking news page, good on them for grabbing a tool and running with it. However, its limited character problem makes it a limited tool, and honestly, I’m simply not interested in sucking down more of my life following tweets. Things like blogs and facebook are enough time sucks for me.
I’m a tool-evaluation kind of gal, and this tool, while fascinating in a social networking sort of way, is lacking a huge amount of gravitas for widespread use for anything other than (in most cases) noise. So, it’s honestly not that I won’t embrace something because it’s new. It’s more that I won’t just embrace something because it’s new. It also has to have something I need or want.
March 18th, 2009 at 10:46 am
Post script 1: I could not have Twittered how I feel about Twitter, since I wrote it in six paragraphs, in detail. Therein lies one illuminating example how Twitter is limited.
Post script 2: Ryan sent out this link to a video that uses satire to express how I feel. Haha. Nothing works better than sarcastic animation!!
March 19th, 2009 at 8:39 am
I’m with Lynne. Twitter is only really useful where soundbites are useful. I don’t mind sound bites, but the reason I go to the sites that I do and consume the media that I do is the depth available, not the soundbites.
It could be useful for organizing a team or something. It could be useful in journalism for ‘heads-up’ purposes… teasing to indicate that more depth will be covered later.