Twitter, microblogging and the news
In Manila a bomb explodes in a commercial district. Calls are made from parents to children. Friends exchanged sms messages. Surprisingly, the media is caught unaware for the first few hours. What happened? Was the question of the hour? Then news came trickling in.
It was not from the press nor from media but it appeared as random posts on Twitter and other microblogging sites. An soon this micro posts or twits find themselves reposted and syndicated by RSS to other applications spreading the news.
Does this make twittering or any form of microblogging a form of embedded news reporting? Sort of. However, The speed and nature of the microposts - because it is local and personal also carries with it some inherent errors or potential errors. Aside from getting the incomplete information, there is the danger of getting wrong information by accident or design.
It still is powerful with Plurk you can now add pictures and videos.
So there is still a need to verify and check things out but it does not take away the fact the microblogging and syndication by RSS feeds provides a great potential pool for news, information and knowledge.
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