Is Twitter the new Reuters?

[iota]

Reuters is 'someone' you can follow and so is FT along with many other established news outlets, credible and otherwise.

It depends how you use it; you follow news agencies you get news, you follow @BobAndTracy_Basildon you don't.

Hopefully the irony of posting about how twitter can be a disproportionately large engine for the populist bandwagon (I think that's what you were getting at) and having everyone that followed jump on the 'f**k twitter' bandwagon didn't escape you

 

[Splitlink]

I've gone through this thread fairly carefully and will, during the course of my day, read others, as well. My point is, who has time for Twitter? I haven't got it for that reason. It's a lot of village gossip, as someone has, already, said and I hear enough of that in ordinary conversation.

 

[new_trader]

As far as ‘Journalism 2.0’ is concerned I think youtube is the biggest threat to mainstream media/propaganda. Twitter is a toy.

 

[Splitlink]

As far as ‘Journalism 2.0’ is concerned I think youtube is the biggest threat to mainstream media/propaganda. Twitter is a toy.

There you go.

I heard on tv the other day how we were getting worried about the kids use of video games and the time spent playing them.

No one mentions adults´toys ie. Big Brother, Twitter, Facebook and all the rest. A big waste of time and, in addition, they get all your personal details. It's going to be like a police state in the end and, in fact, corporations are poking their noses into our business right now because we are too open about our private affairs on the internet.

 

[Jack o'Clubs]

...in addition, they get all your personal details. It's going to be like a police state in the end and, in fact, corporations are poking their noses into our business right now because we are too open about our private affairs on the internet.

Julian Assange gave a speech yesterday saying the web was 'the greatest spying machine the world has ever seen'. I'd agree with that and your comment Splitlink, it's one reason I don't have a Facebook account (the other is that I'm an old fart).

He went on to say that the West was overplaying the part that Facebook, Twitter etc played in the Mid East democracy protests:

He said: "Yes [Twitter and Facebook] did play a part, although not nearly as large a part as al-Jazeera. But the guide produced by Egyptian revolutionaries … says on the first page, 'Do not use Facebook and Twitter', and says on the last page, 'Do not use Facebook and Twitter'. "There is a reason for that. There was actually a Facebook revolt in Cairo three or four years ago. It was very small … after it, Facebook was used to round-up all the principal participants. They were then beaten, interrogated and incarcerated."

 

[Jack o'Clubs]

There you go.

I heard on tv the other day how we were getting worried about the kids use of video games and the time spent playing them.

No one mentions adults´toys ie. Big Brother, Twitter, Facebook and all the rest. A big waste of time and, in addition, they get all your personal details. It's going to be like a police state in the end and, in fact, corporations are poking their noses into our business right now because we are too open about our private affairs on the internet.

Incidentally, reminds me of a recent interview where I was told I had 'an admirably low on-line profile'. All I can be Googled for is a very sober LinkedIn profile and a few times I've come up in the press as a rent-a-quote for my particular specialism. They'd obviously had a look for pissed-in-a-bar Facebook pictures and come away with now't. I'm happy about that - at the moment I'm trying to explain some of this to my kids before they put their entire private lives on Facebook, but they really really don't get it (especially coming from Dad).

 

[Splitlink]

Incidentally, reminds me of a recent interview where I was told I had 'an admirably low on-line profile'. All I can be Googled for is a very sober LinkedIn profile and a few times I've come up in the press as a rent-a-quote for my particular specialism. They'd obviously had a look for pissed-in-a-bar Facebook pictures and come away with now't. I'm happy about that - at the moment I'm trying to explain some of this to my kids before they put their entire private lives on Facebook, but they really really don't get it (especially coming from Dad).

I've a daughter who is the same but, as she's 34, I assume that she knows what she is doing. Everyone, (except us) is at it, politicians, Royal Family, the lot but what I fail to see is what the hell is so interesting.!

The Spanish really are terrible at nosiness. There are tv programmes dedicated to investigating divorces of the Marbella "Jet Set". I find it incredibly boring but they lap it up! Facebook and Twitter is all part of the same time wasting process.

Rant over.

 

[arabianights]

I believe Eric Schmidt said recently that he thinks most under 25 year olds are going to have to change their name at some point, a bit like changing one's username... purely cause of all the traces left on the internet

Which, when you put it like that, isn't actually that big a deal...

The big concern I have is it may mean in the future we only get "whiter than white" types elected as politicans. They're going to be whiter than white either because they're insufferably dull idiots... or because they're sociopaths who wanted apolitical career from year dot.

Neither is who we want in charge.

 

[new_trader]

There you go.

I heard on tv the other day how we were getting worried about the kids use of video games and the time spent playing them.

No one mentions adults´toys ie. Big Brother, Twitter, Facebook and all the rest. A big waste of time and, in addition, they get all your personal details. It's going to be like a police state in the end and, in fact, corporations are poking their noses into our business right now because we are too open about our private affairs on the internet.

I agree 100%. The government couldn't have come with anything better than Facebook. People are voluntarily giving them everything they want to know.