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Because twitter has a vast public reach, more so than an individuals blog. It's also really easy to use by journalists who get pre-made sound bites, which is a
by abstractbeliefs 10y ago
Because twitter has a vast public reach, more so than an individuals blog. It's also really easy to use by journalists who get pre-made sound bites, which is a bonus for the sources too - they can more easily edit and shape how they are quoted.
While a blog would be much better quality, quality journalism doesn't sell nearly as well as highly-polarised, bite-sized clips.
- leephillips 10y agoThe obvious solution is to use Twitter to link to your longer article. Isn't it?
- abstractbeliefs 10y agoIdeally, yes, although I can't actually imagine how any interesting discussion could come of this particular information in either medium - the "good" stuff will be on satellite communities like HN, reddit, 4chan. While a blog is a better authoring medium, it's still shit for discussion, and loses some of the media impact benefits that Snowden probably intends to leverage here.
- wepple 10y agoI think people fear the rather nasty experience of embedded webview when you click a link. It seems to be a bit of a barrier to entry.
- leephillips 10y agoWhat is that? On both TweetDeck and the normal Twitter page, when I click a link the target opens in a new page; nothing embedded.
- mschuster91 10y agoIt's on Twitter for Android, which falls back to the system webview (on my old-ish phone, IIRC Chrome v30), when you don't have Chrome installed.
- leephillips 10y agoOh yeah, I hate that. I suppose there is a good client for Twitter on Android, but I haven't found it yet.
- mschuster91 10y agoI'm writing one with pure HTML5 (Cordova) actually. Too bad it needs either a Cordova container, or a server backend as a proxy, because Twitter sends out fairly restrictive CORS headers. If you don't want to wait until it's ready, I recommend tweecha - or install Google Chrome from the Play Store, that should make Twitter automatically use the Chrome webview instead.
- jmnicolas 10y agoI know that, but Snowden is less superficial than politicians and journalists : he has convictions at least.
- vardump 10y agoRight now it seems like the only game he can play, whether or not he actually wants it.