Comments on: Twitter journalism, beyond happenstance http://almightylink.ksablan.com/journalism/twitter-journalism-hudson-river-twitpic-janice-krums-jkrums-plane/ How people, journalists, and companies connect through links and social tools Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:37:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Josh Fialkoff http://almightylink.ksablan.com/journalism/twitter-journalism-hudson-river-twitpic-janice-krums-jkrums-plane/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Josh Fialkoff Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:29:00 +0000 http://almightylink.ksablan.com/?p=871#comment-45 Hi Kevin. This is an excellent post. Your point about Twitter accounts not being vetted is a tremendous concern. I wonder whether the market can solve this problem though: If people Tweet facts which are not true, they will not be retweeted and they will lose followers, whereas people who share valuable information will gain. This will not work well in a breaking news environment, but there is often incorrect information that is reported by traditional media in such situations. The value of an army of "reporters" with the ability to immediately relay information is a formidable force. -Josh Hi Kevin.
This is an excellent post.
Your point about Twitter accounts not being vetted is a tremendous concern.
I wonder whether the market can solve this problem though: If people Tweet facts which are not true, they will not be retweeted and they will lose followers, whereas people who share valuable information will gain.
This will not work well in a breaking news environment, but there is often incorrect information that is reported by traditional media in such situations.
The value of an army of "reporters" with the ability to immediately relay information is a formidable force.
-Josh

]]> By: Gregor Hunter http://almightylink.ksablan.com/journalism/twitter-journalism-hudson-river-twitpic-janice-krums-jkrums-plane/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Gregor Hunter Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:02:13 +0000 http://almightylink.ksablan.com/?p=871#comment-31 I just wrote a blog post on more or less the exact same subject - which I imagine will become a more common complaint in 2009, the way things are looking. <a href="http://gregorhunter.blogspot.com/2009/02/7-1440-minute-news-cycle.html" target="_blank">http://gregorhunter.blogspot.com/2009/02/7-1440-m...</a> I just wrote a blog post on more or less the exact same subject – which I imagine will become a more common complaint in 2009, the way things are looking.

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