Journos in a hurry over twitter

Journalists write too much rubbish about Twitter,that is according to former BBC journalist Dougald Hind.

He writes on

how bad the reporting of Twitter has been - significantly worse, I would say, than the equivalent coverage of Facebook, when it made a similar leap into public consciousness a couple of years earlier.

The reasons?

Well firstly let's all blame Stephen Fry

The trouble is that trying to understand social media by looking at the behaviour of celebrity users makes about as much sense as trying to understand society by looking at the behaviour of celebrities.

Interestingly though it is journalists anxiety to jump on the twitter bandwagon that is the real problem

getting the best out of Twitter generally requires the use of an external client such as Tweetdeck, rather than visiting Twitter.com directly. Most non-specialist journalists, like most internet users, are only beginning to adjust to the possibility that the web isn't about going to sites, but about information coming to you.

ht-Martin Stabe