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Facebook for me; I know two people living near Tokyo that instantly updated their statuses and it just snowballed from there. It took the US news (nytimes.com)
by flyt 16y ago
Facebook for me; I know two people living near Tokyo that instantly updated their statuses and it just snowballed from there.
It took the US news (nytimes.com) at least 20 minutes to have anything up, but twitter and facebook exploded instantly.
- ugh 16y agoI just want to make clear that my comment was in no way intended to criticize mass media. It’s just an interesting new development – if you are not directly affected mass media is no longer the fastest way to get breaking news. I want mass media to diligently collect all the information they can get and I know that that takes longer than just sending a tweet. Whether the New York Times writes about the event five minutes or an hour after it happens doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things.
- edanm 16y agoJust as another data point, I almost never read "mass media", since most things there don't really interest me. (Excluding Technology-related news, which I get from TechCrunch etc.). This used to be a huge problem for me, sine I would be constantly out-of-touch. But nowadays, I find that Twitter/Facebook tend to keep me up to date on anything that's really big.