http://blog.ulurubeagle.com/2009/02/26/how-twitter-spreads-the-news-on-a-plane-crash/ The ULURU weblog Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:40:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.ulurubeagle.com/2009/02/26/how-twitter-spreads-the-news-on-a-plane-crash/comment-page-1/#comment-1480 A. Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:29:55 +0000 http://blog.ulurubeagle.com/?p=821#comment-1480 You know, at first I thought Twitter was just one of those platforms for people that want a stage, that want as many people as possible to hear them, without going through the trouble of writing an entire blog post. Much as blogging is the same for people that don't want to go through the trouble of writing an entire pamphlet/essay/story. And to an extend, I still think that's true. However, I've got to admit that Twitter has proven to be an amazingly effective medium for citizen journalism. I think that when people get tired of the banal "I'm in Amsterdam now buying socks" level of blurbs, the citizen journalism / eyewitness report stuff will become the most important functionality of Twitter. You know, at first I thought Twitter was just one of those platforms for people that want a stage, that want as many people as possible to hear them, without going through the trouble of writing an entire blog post. Much as blogging is the same for people that don’t want to go through the trouble of writing an entire pamphlet/essay/story. And to an extend, I still think that’s true. However, I’ve got to admit that Twitter has proven to be an amazingly effective medium for citizen journalism. I think that when people get tired of the banal “I’m in Amsterdam now buying socks” level of blurbs, the citizen journalism / eyewitness report stuff will become the most important functionality of Twitter.

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