These days, it is hard to turn on a news show without hearing about Twitter at some point. Thank God, because watching pundits rattle on about the news while always finding a way to talk about themselves wasn’t enough already.
Now don’t get me wrong, Twitter can be very useful in the multimedia news realm. It just gets abused at times.
We discussed recently how (headline) “Demi Moore, Twitter save life of suicidal woman.” But as Kip noted, this is more a case of Twitter being a part of the news rather than being news itself.
Now a few months ago someone aboard a commercial flight kept “tweeters” (correct term I believe) updated about the Hudson River crash. This only spurred the networks to use Twitter in their newscasts.
Although its true that Twitter can be used to “make news”, it seems as though it is better applied to we-media than being a side-track during a broadcast.
In the end though, this is the first time that an online social network has been widely accepted by the older generations first. Most young people don’t see the point. More importantly, some believe Twitter is the definitive proof that we are so egocentric that we feel people actually give a crap about what we’re doing at every waking hour.
This has turned into a rant. That is all.
