Comments on: Is Twitter Changing Your News Habits?

By: Annie

Annie — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:56:57 +0000

Definitely. Big or important news bubbles through Twitter incredibly quickly. It acts as a filter, too. Since I only follow people I share interests with, the topics they find newsworthy are things I’d find newsworthy, too. For the big stories I follow one bot, BreakingNewsOn, then go to other sites for details.

By: buzzbishop

buzzbishop — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:13:58 +0000

I wrote about this topic yesterday as well. I dont know what it is about the Heath news that struck me, but it just seemed to be a wildfire across the workplace spreading the news.

It got me thinking.. radio used to be the immediate method of gathering news. Now is it Facebook statii? Text message? Email alerts? or Twitter?

Probably all of the above, depending on the users level of internet-ification.

http://www.buzzbishop.com/blog/2008/01/22/james-brown-is-dead/

By: Jersey Todd

Jersey Todd — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:21:21 +0000

Interestingly, Twitter has changed that news gets reported. Yesterday, when Heath Ledger passed there was a clamor among the Twitterati to be the “first” to post the breaking news story. This led to people posting links hours late, but the desire to “scoop” other posters was clearly present.

Of course, being the first one to repost someone else’s breaking news doesn’t necessarily qualify as a scoop – maybe as a “double scoop.”

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:05:21 +0000

Good idea. Now I can stop reading this website and remove it from my RSS feeds. Just see when someone impartial twitters it, which will be irregular.

By: Rhys

Rhys — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:31:54 +0000

@Chris – True, but you try fitting “I’m getting a large t-shirt as opposed to an extra large t-shirt to show my arnold schwartzenneger physique off, as opposed to the rest of the blogging world who stick to extra large as they have beer guts” into 140 characters ;)

By: Baddie

Baddie — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:48:42 +0000

Twitter has been my main news source for several months now. I get all kinds of updates; from local news to international headlines. Also, it has become my mini RSS reader. I tend to visit the people who post tweets about their new blog posts more than non Twitter blogger folk.

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:47:27 +0000

@David – I find the news is more to my taste when coming from friends too

@Rhys – The sad truth is Darren has XL shirts because of his arnie-like physique, whereas my XL shirts is because of my huge gut ;)

By: Rhys

Rhys — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:26:01 +0000

Twitter is fast becoming my main news source. I follow the bloggers I want on it, rather than my feeds.

Plus, it is rather reassuring to know that Darren Rowse is also an XL T-shirt size :)

By: David Krug

David Krug — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:22:10 +0000

Chris,
I agree I really noticed this today. Very revolutionary absorption of news what’s a newspaper I’ve got friends to share the news with me now.