Comments on: Twitter as news delivery system

By: The appeal of Twitter — part XVII - - mathewingram.com/work

The appeal of Twitter — part XVII - - mathewingram.com/work — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:28:40 +0000

[...] is less than 140 characters). I’ve written my share of blog posts about Twitter, including here and here, and now we have a longish post from Howard “Smart Mobs” Rheingold about why [...]

By: mathewi

mathewi — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:48:32 +0000

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

By: dave

dave — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:26:02 +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 18:17:01 +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 18:16:01 +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.