Twitter versus CNN….I’ll take CNN if it’s OK with you
I often find it rather amusing how Twitter considers itself to be a “news service”. I like Twitter and I write often about its merits but let’s get real here. It’s not a news service. If you want to be generous, call it a “snippet service”. At a maximum 140 characters, it can’t really call itself a rival to CNN.
Yes, it may have beaten the news networks in reporting the China earthquake but is a Twitter message of “wow, what was that? what is that shaking?” count as a serious breaking news headline? I don’t think so. Come on. Get real people. I somehow don’t think Wolf Blitzer is insecure in his Situation Room.
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May 16th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
I still don’t understand all the hype around Twitter. I’m interested in the tech world and I subscribe to 40 or 50 blogs solely dedicated to technology news, and almost all of them think Twitter is the best thing to happen to the internet since browsers. They don’t seem to understand that being in touch with someone live-twittering from China is only possible because they’re high-profile bloggers, and that even if someone like me used Twitter, I’d still depend on the bloggers I already read to give me all the news second- or third-hand. I’ll stick to my feed reader, thank you very much.
/rant