Comments on: Twitter as news delivery system

By: mathewi

mathewi — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:48:32 +0000

Come on, Dave — you can do better than that.

By: dave

dave — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:26:02 +0000

Another content-free post whose sole purpose is to get you on TechMeme. And btw, some of us like Scoble just the way he is. No need for your to suffer, just unfollow.

By: mathewi

mathewi — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:17:01 +0000

Thanks Mitch. There is definitely still plenty of noise, but at the same
time the signal is going up I think — depending on who you follow :-) And
David's “accidental journalist” is the perfect term for it.

By: mathewi

mathewi — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:16:01 +0000

Those are all good points, Alan — and a good reason why Twitter doesn't
replace a CMS, or any kind of regular media outlet for that matter. But it
is an interesting extension to one, I would argue.

By: mitchjoel

mitchjoel — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:38:52 +0000

Great post Matthew. There are moments when I'm not sure who to follow (and who to ignore) in twitter, but I find the more people I follow, the more there tends to be more news coming my way.

David Weinberger had a Blog posting recently about the Accidental Journalist - I think this falls right into that bucket.