Comments on: Should the mainstream media see Twitter as competition?

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 04:45:07 +0000

Lol.
Yes you did, Dave.

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 03:04:46 +0000

Thanks, Dave :-)

By: Ryan Craft

Ryan Craft — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 03:02:55 +0000

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GroupTweet allows you to choose a hashtag(s) and list contributors you wish to include in your GroupTweet account. Any Tweets from your contributors containing the hashtag(s) you’ve chosen will instantly be Tweeted from the GroupTweet account. Check it out.

By: Colin Doody

Colin Doody — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:08:51 +0000

I think you’re missing the point. Twitter as a distribution platform is to the benefit of Media Companies. With Twitter curating all the distributed content is still to the benefit of Media Companies, especially the premium ones, allowing and now encouraging the best content to rise to the top. Both further encourage Media Companies to participate.

If, or rather when, Twitters shifts from a platform for content distribution to one of consumption is where the competition becomes real. Especially if the Media Companies don’t control the surrounding monetization. Some can argue that shift happened a long time ago. The irony is the fact the Media Companies have no one to blame but themselves.

By: Dave Winer

Dave Winer — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:39:57 +0000

1. Of course.

2. Told you so! :-)

By: TinyVox: Tape&Tweet

TinyVox: Tape&Tweet — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 00:31:23 +0000

I don’t watch TV anymore. For the last two years, I’ve had Twitter running constantly. It’s a media company as soon as it shows the will to be one.

By: ricdesan

ricdesan — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 18:19:22 +0000

Twitter like FB enjoys brand economies of scale that keep them relevant. Particularly in Twitter’s case, they have hit the perfect and enviable balance of brevity of content and focus of interest.

Twitter is media, old media just doesn’t what to do to represent value for the future like twitter does.

Real-time media is the next phase and just the fact that you deliver it is what is important.

By: Chris McCoy

Chris McCoy — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:47:55 +0000

Twitter is a “technomedia” company. I wrote some loose thoughts on this while awhile back: http://www.quora.com/Chris-McCoy/Posts/How-content-wins

This curated portal deal w/Nascar positions them as the media network delivering content directly to an engaged audience of consumers… Media company 101. Boom.

Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, etc. have always reminded me of this famous quote from the Usual Suspects movie: “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”

Problem with traditional media companies are their product cycles aren’t fast enough to keep up with the necessary innovation to play in this technomedia world. Their largest assets are their brands and if they had the technical prowess they could do many of the same things Twitter, etc. is doing today.