Friday, February 12, 2010

What's the Twitter About?

Sorry to be disconnected for so long. Life gets in the way of the best intentions.

There has been a lot of chatter lately about the use of social media for news distribution. The question has been raised: "Can reliable news stories be written based on Facebook and Twitter? My answer is no. What is Twitter anyway? From my and many other's perspective its only purpose is to answer the "What am I doing right now?" question which is clearly not news. At least not to me.

There is no question that social media outlets like Twitter allows news to travel very fast to the masses, but at the end of the day news needs to be reliable and of quality.

Enough said ... for now.

DD