The title sums it up really. I understand how it is important for journalists and news organisations, but only for after a news story and it really only fills a headline. But for me, I see it as Facebook's status update feature and not much else. Most of the Twitter updates I've ever seen are generally whatever that person is thinking at that point in time, often not very enlightening, and to be honest I doubt anything I would say would be either.
Don't get me wrong, I still think this picture is the greatest thing to ever come from Twitter. Within minutes of the plane's crash it was on Twitter for the world to see, pretty fantastic.
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| US Airways Flight 1549 pictured on Twitter |
The only time I can think of when I could have provided these kind of updates was this years flood when it washed through my suburb of Graceville. And well I did on Facebook. But until I'm an employed journalist I think Twitter can wait. If I even want to be a journalist!
Blogs I understand more, but then I find huge problems of how to be objective and that's a whole other story.
Twitter, blogs, Facebook and all the others provide all new outlets for Journalists but pose serious questions about their usage which I don't believe have been answered yet.
Anyway, for now I think I might skip the 160 character world...
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