Is Twitter The CNN Of The New Media Generation? by Brian Solis

 
 
 
 
 
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This past weekend the Twitterverse spoke-out in exasperation and opposition against traditional media networks (CNN specifically) and the absence of instantaneous coverage of the Iranian election and the resulting fallout. “We the people” wanted real-time information regarding the violent protests that erupted on the streets of Iran and the stories probing potential foul play in the results. We took to Twitter to express discontent and to also uncover the real story as it was unfolding live through citizen journalism.

The world was watching…and it did so on Twitter and not CNN or any other news network.

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08/28/2009

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The terminology--'twitter,' 'tweet,' etc.--is sophomoric. Added to that, one may sum up the senders of most tweets, and their content, in the first four letters of twitter--for those of you still living west of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, that would be t_w_i_t. Given that network's continuing decline, is it wishful thinking on the part of the writer, that twittering is the CNN of the new media? In any case, it is unlikely that those partaking of the current networking will blithely stand by, as CNN reporters in Iraq did, and let murder and torture go unreported in order to continue to have access to a dictator. Even to be an unconvincing possibility, most would have to forgo the mindless babble in favor of items of genuine concern: the fate of their country, their way of life, and the dictatorship of El Presidente Hugo Obama, which will affect the world.

08 / 30 / 2009