There is much talk about Twitter these days. We hear of Congressman twittering from their sessions and speeches. We have heard of stars of the entertainment industry logging on to their twitters five or six times a day and even the news anchormen/women twittering as they bring us news on television. We hear this amidst news of collapse of newspapers. The New York Times shares are plummeting; the Rocky Mountain News is ending its print operations and the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Daily News are merging operations where the latter becomes merely an edition of the former.
These are changing times in the media.
“Let’s Stop the Twitter Madness,” by Lee Woodruff in The Daily Beast.
“Anchors Oblige Public’s Craving for Tweets,” by Howard Kurtz in the Washington Post.
“What Are You Doing? Media Twitterers Can’t Stop Typing,” by Alessandra Stanley in The New York Times.
March 30, 2009 at 6:42 am |
I don’t understand the world’s obsession with telling people what they think. Twitter seems like a way to attract attention to yourself and have people listen to your opinions. Maybe I’m wring, but I never hear of anyone saying something of substance on Twitter, just tidbits about themselves. Instead of saying anything of substance or importance people just say what Twitter could be used to say something of substance, but isn’t. It’s just another way to serve the self-absorbed mind in our culture.