[CITASA] Media portrayls of Twitter, et al.

[Elizabeth Pullen]

The media coverage of Twitter has been varied. Rich Sanchez of CNN uses it actively on his 3 pm news show & Oprah had a positive segment about Twitter on show last Friday. NPR is very active on Twitter & Saturday morning host Scott Simon has one of largest accounts on the network. If you look at the most active users (most messages sent) on the system, they are all either news feeds or radio feeds.
 
It appears that those who use Twitter, take full advantage of the network while those who don't understand it, dismiss it...like the internet was dismissed by many in the early 1990s. Because Twitter has gotten a certain level of media buzz, this is inevitably followed by a backlash by people who feel a pressure to adopt it (which is completely unwarranted). 
 
Liz Pullen
epullen at drew.edu
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