Twitter ******* useless: the WWW equivalent of scribbling on the bathroom wall

[Starman]

Hey I heard your girlfriend is a ****

Oh yeah well your sister sucked a **** and I heard your brother is the #BostonMarathonBomber


Citizen Journalism!!!!!

 

[Alma]

I'm confident that the most-used non-curse word on Twitter is "Wow" or "Whoa." It's indisputably No. 1 for sportswriters.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

What does CNN, Fox, the Boston Globe, and many other legacy news outlets screwing up have to do with Twitter?

 

[Starman]

Twitter fuels the white-noise machine and provides pressure to go public instantly with every scrap of concocted and unconfirmed pseudo-information.

 

[mrbigles01]

What does CNN, Fox, the Boston Globe, and many other legacy news outlets screwing up have to do with Twitter?

This. Blaming this on twitter is tone deaf and belies a lack of understand of what social media is and how it can be used effectively. Lazy.

 

[HejiraHenry]

Bah. I say it's pretty damned handy.

 

[Starman]

Yeah well somebody just tweeted your sister is a ****.

 

[Mystery Meat II]

#yolo

 

[playthrough]

What does CNN, Fox, the Boston Globe, and many other legacy news outlets screwing up have to do with Twitter?

This. Blaming this on twitter is tone deaf and belies a lack of understand of what social media is and how it can be used effectively. Lazy.

But when Irresponsible TV News Organization puts out a bad report, you can bet on the screen there's a hashtag-whatever encouraging people to "join the conversation," er, peddle the bad report and therefore turn a ****storm into a bigger ****storm.

Like I read somewhere, Twitter is great for the first five minutes of a crisis and then worthless for the next 24 hours.

 

[BTExpress]

Like I read somewhere, Twitter is great for the first five minutes of a crisis and then worthless for the next 24 hours.

That's a good description.

"Hey, something just happened at ----------!"

Cool. Now, get off the site and try to find out what DID happen.

 

[YGBFKM]

Ban me if you want. I'm outing Starman.

 

[Bubbler]

Twitter isn't the problem. It's morons who don't exercise good judgment in using it. Ninety-nine percent of it is in the race to be first instead of being right.

 

[SockPuppet]

History doesn't record who got the story 2 minutes before anyone else. History does record who was wrong.

 

[NDJournalist]

Not liking Twitter is like not liking sabermetrics. It doesn't make sense to not like it, just use it correctly.

 

[Riptide]

I'm confident that the most-used non-curse word on Twitter is "Wow" or "Whoa." It's indisputably No. 1 for sportswriters.

Remember, "Wow. Just wow." is the new "Wow."

Make sure you use it 17 times a day for eleventy-thousand years.

 

[BTExpress]

Twitter isn't the problem. It's morons who don't exercise good judgment in using it. Ninety-nine percent of it is in the race to be first instead of being right.

But what is good judgment re: Twitter?

Rumors with zero fact checking and simply linking to another site get posted on here all the time (see Friends reunion thread) --- and we're supposed to be journalists. And we expect the 99 percent of Twitter users who aren't journalists to use it correctly?

"Ah, but this isn't my newspaper/radio show/blog/TV report. I don't have to exercise the same caution and standards here that I do in the real world."

Oh? And why not?

Getting something wrong, posting something wrong --- any place, any time, on any medium --- should make a journalist's gut hurt.

I don't sense that at all. Not here. And not much of anywhere.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Twitter isn't the problem. It's morons who don't exercise good judgment in using it. Ninety-nine percent of it is in the race to be first instead of being right.

But what is good judgment re: Twitter?

Rumors with zero fact checking and simply linking to another site get posted on here all the time (see Friends reunion thread) --- and we're supposed to be journalists. And we expect the 99 percent of Twitter users who aren't journalists to use it correctly?

"Ah, but this isn't my newspaper/radio show/blog/TV report. I don't have to exercise the same caution and standards here that I do in the real world."

Oh? And why not?

Getting something wrong, posting something wrong --- any place, any time, on any medium --- should make a journalist's gut hurt.

I don't sense that at all. Not here. And not much of anywhere.

So don't follow the people who screw up a lot and don't have standards for what they tweet.

I follow a hell of a lot of people, but I never see the tweets that are given as examples of the evils of Twitter because I don't follow the yokels who post those things.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Not liking Twitter is like not liking sabermetrics. It doesn't make sense to not like it, just use it correctly.

Why, precisely, does one have to like Twitter?

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

I'm confident that the most-used non-curse word on Twitter is "Wow" or "Whoa." It's indisputably No. 1 for sportswriters.

Remember, "Wow. Just wow." is the new "Wow."

Make sure you use it 17 times a day for eleventy-thousand years.

We've been using that around here for years and then it fell out favor.
We're Hipsters!!!!

 

[hondo]

Yeah well somebody just tweeted your sister is a ****.

What if someone calls my momma a *****?