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I remember that CNN was all Twitter all the time a few years ago. I haven't watched until today for Baltimore info. No mention of Twitter in the last six hours
by johnpowell 11y ago
I remember that CNN was all Twitter all the time a few years ago. I haven't watched until today for Baltimore info. No mention of Twitter in the last six hours of watching.
- serve_yay 11y agoI watched the coverage all day yesterday. The police were talking about their Twitter as the official way to stay updated, and the news anchors frequently were talking about who tweeted what. Maybe CNN just has something against Twitter now, who knows.
- rodgerd 11y ago> Maybe CNN just has something against Twitter now, who knows. Why use a 24 hour news network when you can just get on-the-ground views from Twitter? That's probably what they have against it.
- johnpowell 11y agoI'm talking more about CNN putting tweets up on the screen and discussing the contents of the tweet. Like when a tweet about MH370 being sucked into a black hole was discussed by a panel.
- serve_yay 11y agoYes, and I'm saying maybe someone in their company decided that Twitter is bad, or maybe some Twitter VP ate the sandwich that person wanted to eat, or they decided Twitter is a competitive threat, or whatever. As I said, who knows.
- dragonwriter 11y agoOr maybe the novelty wore off.
- oldmanjay 11y agoThey might be afraid that speaking of the internet will bring down the rage of The Hacker 4chan.
- this_user 11y agoPersonally, I find Twitter highly overrated. At least 90% of this service seems to consist of inane nonsense, assorted trolls, blowhards and every *ism imaginable. While other services like Reddit (or HN) offer the community a way to curate content and block out the worst nonsense, Twitter buries you with it. The only way to use it is to only follow select people and stick to your news feed. But there the 140 character limit all to often makes it impossible to deliver anything more meaningful than a headline and a link.