Maybe Simon has something here. I have seen good bloggers become obsessed with tweeting because its all about the speed and the network. A tweet begets another tweet and somehow all the tweeting reveals to everyone some hitherto unspoken wisdom. Its the wisdom of the crowd…uh oh that’s not right. Its many different views on a subject all neatly bundled up for us in the form of a series of 140 character tweets. How neat!
As a form of almost instant communication that can link in shortform to everything else on the net, tweeting looks useful as a tool to break news but how can anyone understand what’s going on via twitter without being hooked into the twitterverse? Where are the filters, the aggregators, the distillers, the people who can communicate to the non-tweeters?
Is the message, the genuine news in danger of being drowned in the tweet tweet of “I hate kittens…me too…kittens are cute, get a life…”
Twitter, Facebook, Social Media Make Us Talk in Soundbites – Advertising Age – The Media Guy.
