Comments on: If you think Twitter doesn’t break news, you’re living in a dream world

By: invitedmedia

invitedmedia — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:59:57 +0000

“twitter doesn’t break news…”

so on the rare occasion the TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS score a goal, do the announcers now have to say that “well, the leafs really didn’t score, it was the players”.

get real.

By: Stan Faryna

Stan Faryna — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:13:06 +0000

The argument, my dear Horatio, that relevance is decided by mainstream media’s confirmation of social news merely betrays the impoverished and medieval thinking that throws down such gauntlets. Petty fiefdoms serve little princes, indeed. The history of fiat currencies is one of failure.

Stan Faryna
http://www.twitter.com/#!/Faryna

By: Matthew Hyde

Matthew Hyde — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:00:01 +0000

Of course Twitter breaks news – it’s crazy to think that, say, an earthquake in New Zealand needs verifying by AP when half of Christchurch are tweeting that their homes are shaking.

The problem is the signal to noise ratio – only recently Keanu Reeves and Rowan Atkinson have been reported to have died by tweeters. This was false. Paradoxically, Twitter’s strengths – speed and accessibility – are also the things that can hurt its credibility as a news source.

By: sydneykc

sydneykc — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:17:11 +0000

Twitter is also excellent at starting and perpetuating rumors which is exactly why I wait to hear it from a trusted news source. Last month, the assassination of Kim Jong Un “broke” on twitter, but it wasn’t news at all. Just a rumor.

By: GoodGravey

GoodGravey — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:38:59 +0000

Oh – and I forgot to mention. Things like the Christchurch earthquakes – you hear from people caught up in the event as it happens. You can’t get any more breaking than that.

By: Goodgravey

Goodgravey — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:36:24 +0000

I trust Twitter more for my news. Dunno about elsewhere, but here in NZ news sources have become twisted opinion pieces and little more.

The news you get via Twitter depends very much on the people or agencies you follow. I totally trust the people I follow.

And the ideas referred to in the article belie the fact that traditional news agencies use twitter to break news. So the twitter network is just as valid a media for newsbreaking as anything else. Print media, of course, doesn’t break any news

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:15:09 +0000

What you are referring to as news on Twitter is really just rumor. It becomes news when verified by trustworthy sources (more than one).

By: Bill Lehane

Bill Lehane — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:25:47 +0000

The more I read about this issue the more I realize Twitter is an entirely new entity that defies definition by traditional terms. It’s not a news wire, but it has raw information first, and it can be both a news source and a news outlet depending on how you use it.

By: Frederick Ingram

Frederick Ingram — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 01:33:40 +0000

In 2008 someone noticed that a pair of unidentified bodies found in SC in August 1976 perfectly match a pair of desaparecidos abducted two months earlier during Argentina’s Dirty War. Same height, weight, age, hair, complexion, nose, earlobes, eye color for both of them. What are the odds?

Is this news? Still no mention at all in any traditional media anywhere. Despite my queries to local and national newspapers, TV newsmagazines, etc.

I am certain there is something to this and after reviewing hundreds of pages of texts, declassified memos, etc. have found how these cases could be connected. See the uncanny resemblances and background at my blog chaseofthecondor.blogspot.com.

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:16:24 +0000

Unfortunately the people who need to get it are the ones who don’t.