Comments on: Why Does Real Time Always Equate to Twitter? http://www.newsome.org/2009/12/why-does-real-time-always-equate-to/ Kent Newsome on technology, music and life Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kent Newsome http://www.newsome.org/2009/12/why-does-real-time-always-equate-to/comment-page-1/#comment-2035 Kent Newsome Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:20:25 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=3790#comment-2035 Jeff, that Hudson story is the best example of Twitter as an actual news-breaker, but that's the exception not the rule. Additionally, I bet the large majority of people who saw the story first on Twitter immediately turned on CNN to follow the story- that's what I did with the idiotic-parents-Colorado-balloon story. I do agree that Twitter is good at spreading news. I'd just rather Google focus on getting the news faster from the CNNs and Mashables of the world, as opposed to Twitter and (ugh) MySpace. Jeff, that Hudson story is the best example of Twitter as an actual news-breaker, but that's the exception not the rule. Additionally, I bet the large majority of people who saw the story first on Twitter immediately turned on CNN to follow the story- that's what I did with the idiotic-parents-Colorado-balloon story. I do agree that Twitter is good at spreading news. I'd just rather Google focus on getting the news faster from the CNNs and Mashables of the world, as opposed to Twitter and (ugh) MySpace.

]]> By: Jeff http://www.newsome.org/2009/12/why-does-real-time-always-equate-to/comment-page-1/#comment-2034 Jeff Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:05:52 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=3790#comment-2034 Actually, there have been quite a number of stories broken on Twitter. The best example I can think of is when the plane crashed in the Hudson. The first on the scene was a ferry that stopped to render assistance. One of the ferry passengers posted information and even pics of the downed plane on Twitter before it had even hit the cable news networks. Additionally, it is not uncommon for sports writers to post things during games before they make it even on air - injury status reports, etc - or for entertainers to release information to fans on Twitter before it gets into the mainstream news.<br><br>Getting to your point about Twitter posting links to stories, that may be true, but, at the very least, it SPREADS that news MUCH more quickly than could be done through any of the other media outlets including Google because of the real time conversational nature of Twitter.<br><br>The fact is that Twitter has changed the way we find out about news and how it is reported. That's just a fact. Actually, there have been quite a number of stories broken on Twitter. The best example I can think of is when the plane crashed in the Hudson. The first on the scene was a ferry that stopped to render assistance. One of the ferry passengers posted information and even pics of the downed plane on Twitter before it had even hit the cable news networks. Additionally, it is not uncommon for sports writers to post things during games before they make it even on air – injury status reports, etc – or for entertainers to release information to fans on Twitter before it gets into the mainstream news.

Getting to your point about Twitter posting links to stories, that may be true, but, at the very least, it SPREADS that news MUCH more quickly than could be done through any of the other media outlets including Google because of the real time conversational nature of Twitter.

The fact is that Twitter has changed the way we find out about news and how it is reported. That's just a fact.

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