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As the author, I'd be happy to have a discussion about that. In my mind, comments made on any public platform, whether it'd be on stage at a conference or on a
by robinwauters 16y ago
As the author, I'd be happy to have a discussion about that.
In my mind, comments made on any public platform, whether it'd be on stage at a conference or on a public account of a social networking service, can constitute news if there's a clear angle.
- doron 16y agoPerhaps, but the limitation imposed by this medium (140 char) as you noted gives little. Consider any overheard single sentence and how much insight you usually gain from it. I like twitter, but the reliance on this platform as a source is a little too much sometimes.
- mikeklaas 16y agoBut it's much better than taking a sentence out of context from a regular conversation or article because it was authored with the intent of being distributed sans context. To me this is a great strength of twitter's model, not a weakness.
- gms 16y agoI always thought that it was an unspoken social more to not turn comments on social sites into news. Something about it feels eerily intrusive, like overhearing a conversation at a restaurant and immediately broadcasting it to the world. Perhaps I'm old-fashioned/alone in this view/mistaken.
- robinwauters 16y agoWell, it rarely happens, for starters. And I think the analogy with overhearing a conversation at a restaurant is completely off the mark. Broadcasting a message on a vast network like Twitter is anything but a private remark or conversation. For the record, I would never publish anything I would overhear at a restaurant, nor something that gets posted on a social site but for an intentionally limited audience.
- gms 16y agoOk. I'm not accusing you of anything though; am just trying to better understand my own thinking.
- nostrademons 16y agoThe top link on Hacker News last night ("Today you, tomorrow me") was a direct link to a Reddit comment.