Instant Information One Of Twitters Greatest Uses
The recent publicity on CNN on how Twitter broke the news first about a bus crash in India just proves that the ability to write and post real time information makes Twitter an even faster tool for getting news and information to the public than even blogging. Though you need to follow up with a blog post to provide more details, for immediately broadcasting an event nothing is more valuable that being at the scene or witnessing it and reporting it live.
CNN and many other media sites now get most of their breaking news from the public who send pictures, tweets, or dial phone calls into the networks to report what just happened or is in the process of happening. News networks can barely keep up with the flood of information and have to filter what is “worthy” of being shown to the whole country, or what stays as just local news.
Twitter though with no clear direction on purpose or function it will have is actually starting to show what functions it will play,the real time messaging service shows where you can create entire feeds based on geographic location. Think like breaking Phoenix, AZ news, or Detroit, MI news. Where tweets with a certain keywords related to NEWS, EVENTS…etc are categories and listed by location.
Such tweets could be monitored and be faster and more accurate than turning on your local news channel for finding out what is going on in your area, and these rely on everyday people to report what is going on. By the time the news media gets it, it could be old news. One such thing that makes this not reliable is people’s ability to invent and make up stuff and it would take some time before it is corrected, but there is always the belief of someone posting something urgent and important that comes as 2nd nature.
Either way, Twitter continues to be in the news and bring massive attention as it becomes more popular and more a center point of online social networking lately.
-Dragon Blogger
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This is a really nifty concept!
One thing I'm not sure about: are you seeing the central news feed as something Twitter could do as a service, or is this more something people should construct for themselves at an individual level? I could see advantages to both.
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