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There is zero differwnce between this and the old fashioned practice of picking two or three random people on the street to ask an opinion of. Reporters have be
by Vrondi 8y ago
There is zero differwnce between this and the old fashioned practice of picking two or three random people on the street to ask an opinion of. Reporters have been giving "man on the street" opinions of news stories forever. The only difference is that with Twitter a reporter cam actually see a larher number of opinions easily, which are already public, without dragging a cameraman down the sidewalk.
- notatcomputer68 8y ago1. People on sidewalk are people. "Tweeters" may or may not be people. 2. A person can have at most one spot on a sidewalk, but multiple Twitter accounts. 3. People can organize an outpouring of opinion I Twitter. "Let's all tweet this at the same time" you can't organize happening to be on a sidewalk when the journo comes looking. 4. There is a certain personality type that joins Twitter. This is not the case to the same extent for sidewalks. 5. Tweet speed among Twitter users is more different (less than one to hundreds per day) than time spent walking sidewalks. 6. People on sidewalks are ASKED their opinion. People on Twitter speak without being asked. The people who aren't talking about a subject will have less strong views. 7. People on the sidewalk are in the same country as the journalist.