Twitter is the First News
April 14, 2008 – 11:13 pm by CJBMany people have probably never even heard of Twitter, let alone know its value for breaking news. Michael Arrington of TechCrunch says:
It’s clear that Twitter is the place that a lot of news breaks first (example), hours before blogs and days before mainstream media. No one has created an application yet that harvests that information and presents it as breaking news or breaking memes with anything like what TechMeme has done for blogs and other news sites.
Twitter doesn’t have a huge base of users, but it is substantial and if any of this is true, maybe a growing list. I personally have not found it all that great, but I also don’t like to broadcast my going-ons to folks on a regular basis. I could be missing some of the great features or functionality, but I don’t think so. Prove me wrong…I will probably be a twittering-fiend in a year or two.
