[CITASA] Media portrayls of Twitter, et al.

[Barry Wellman]

I don't think newsfeeds are "users" of Twitter in the community sense.
My beef is with the multiple reporters (NY Times 3X, Toronto Globe, Little
Rock TV) I've dealt with recently who treat it as a strange exotic beast,
and who are still on the kick that the Internet is killing F2F community.
Time to wring that canard's neck -- if i only knew how.

 Barry Wellman
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On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Elizabeth Pullen wrote:

> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:39:10 -0400
> From: Elizabeth Pullen <epullen at drew.edu>
> To: Barry Wellman <wellman at chass.utoronto.ca>,
>      communication and information technology section asa
>     <citasa at list.citasa.org>
> Subject: Re: [CITASA] Media portrayls of Twitter, et al.
>
> 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.
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> 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).
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> Liz Pullen
> epullen at drew.edu
>