Comments on: Twitter and Breaking News about the Earthquake in China http://www.myseveralworlds.com/2008/05/12/twitter-and-breaking-news-about-the-earthquake-in-china/ Destinations, Lifestyles, and Cultures in Asia Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: “Retweeting” a post about Twitter « Peder with a D http://www.myseveralworlds.com/2008/05/12/twitter-and-breaking-news-about-the-earthquake-in-china/#comment-2263 “Retweeting” a post about Twitter « Peder with a D Tue, 13 May 2008 17:32:43 +0000 http://www.myseveralworlds.com/?p=460#comment-2263 [...] 3. Third entry today goes to another member of my blog roll (right hand column, list of other blogs I read).  Meet Carrie.  This first post talks about her experience with Twitter.  This second provides an account of how Twitter helped break the Chinese earthquake story. [...] [...] 3. Third entry today goes to another member of my blog roll (right hand column, list of other blogs I read).  Meet Carrie.  This first post talks about her experience with Twitter.  This second provides an account of how Twitter helped break the Chinese earthquake story. [...]

]]> By: Carrie http://www.myseveralworlds.com/2008/05/12/twitter-and-breaking-news-about-the-earthquake-in-china/#comment-2248 Carrie Tue, 13 May 2008 02:33:53 +0000 http://www.myseveralworlds.com/?p=460#comment-2248 Hey hey MJ! You're not breaking any mood! You know I love it when you stop by and comment. You always give me pause for thinking. Naruwan, thanks for your input as well. The fact still remains that for a large number of people around the world, this news came first via Twitter. I didn't hear about it first from other news sources, I heard about it from friends on a social networking platform yesterday afternoon while at work. I know. For shame. Messing around with Twitter at work. Twitter is powerful stuff and it amazes me how much information I receive from it. I guess it isn't so important WHO reported first, but I do stop to consider where the news came from first. As I mentioned above, whether the information is accurate or not remains to be seen. I also think it's really interesting that The NY Times, Reuters and BBC were all reporting on the quake on Twitter before the information was released elsewhere. The person who left that comment in the afore-mentioned article has admitted he was wrong and was provided with links that show the time line as being correct. I think MJ also made a interesting point about numbers, followers and human ambition, but as bloggers, aren't we all about these same things? Hey hey MJ! You’re not breaking any mood! You know I love it when you stop by and comment. You always give me pause for thinking.

Naruwan, thanks for your input as well.

The fact still remains that for a large number of people around the world, this news came first via Twitter. I didn’t hear about it first from other news sources, I heard about it from friends on a social networking platform yesterday afternoon while at work. I know. For shame. Messing around with Twitter at work.

Twitter is powerful stuff and it amazes me how much information I receive from it. I guess it isn’t so important WHO reported first, but I do stop to consider where the news came from first.

As I mentioned above, whether the information is accurate or not remains to be seen. I also think it’s really interesting that The NY Times, Reuters and BBC were all reporting on the quake on Twitter before the information was released elsewhere.

The person who left that comment in the afore-mentioned article has admitted he was wrong and was provided with links that show the time line as being correct. I think MJ also made a interesting point about numbers, followers and human ambition, but as bloggers, aren’t we all about these same things?

]]> By: naruwan http://www.myseveralworlds.com/2008/05/12/twitter-and-breaking-news-about-the-earthquake-in-china/#comment-2242 naruwan Mon, 12 May 2008 23:14:11 +0000 http://www.myseveralworlds.com/?p=460#comment-2242 Agree with Michael. You want fast info but more importantly it needs to be accurate and useful, which is why I prefer sources like BBC Breaking on Twitter. http://twitter.com/bbcbreaking Agree with Michael. You want fast info but more importantly it needs to be accurate and useful, which is why I prefer sources like BBC Breaking on Twitter.
http://twitter.com/bbcbreaking

]]> By: MJ Klein http://www.myseveralworlds.com/2008/05/12/twitter-and-breaking-news-about-the-earthquake-in-china/#comment-2240 MJ Klein Mon, 12 May 2008 19:58:21 +0000 http://www.myseveralworlds.com/?p=460#comment-2240 sorry to break the mood, but according to a comment left on this article http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/05/twitter_and_the_china_earthqua.html MSN and Rueters had already released the story. as for me, i didn't see a single mention of it. in fact i didn't know about the earthquake until late in the evening. Scoble twittered on it an hour after it occurred. that's not very real-time. once again, this belongs in the realm of digg, where it's nothing about the news or the content, it's about getting numbers and being famous. alas, the potential is lost due to human ambition. sorry to break the mood, but according to a comment left on this article http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/05/twitter_and_the_china_earthqua.html MSN and Rueters had already released the story. as for me, i didn’t see a single mention of it. in fact i didn’t know about the earthquake until late in the evening. Scoble twittered on it an hour after it occurred. that’s not very real-time.

once again, this belongs in the realm of digg, where it’s nothing about the news or the content, it’s about getting numbers and being famous. alas, the potential is lost due to human ambition.

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