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You're missing the point of the parent. If CNN breaks it on Twitter, they COULD break it on cable immediately. They've done it many times when real news occurre

You're missing the point of the parent. If CNN breaks it on Twitter, they COULD break it on cable immediately. They've done it many times when real news occurred. They COULD break the flooding in your area (and probably would) as soon as they learned of it. I'm guessing the actual lead time, if it's something as important as a major flood, is a matter of at most a minute or two. Which means that all Twitter in this case did is bombard people with stupidity 30 minutes before cable TV did the same. That's not a value add. If anything, it's an extra 30 minutes before this stupid fact pushes something useful out of my brain. Because I avoid Twitter, I knew who won the Battle of Trafalgar for an extra half hour before cable ruined that. If you wanted to give an example of Twitter being useful, you'd give one where some normal person (not a cable news network) broke a story that got big before the MSM even found out.

terpua 17y ago
That is my point. Someone else (a normal person) breaks a major flooding news in her area via Internet/twitter before CNN or other MSM. In our area at least, it would be at least 10 minutes or more before our MSM gets any news on this. Another recent example, tied to the flooding, we had brownouts but the MSM was reporting incorrect brownout schedules. We went to twitter and got the tweets directly from the utility company. This example is not breaking news per se but it affects our daily lives. Sorry if that wasn't clear before.
- mattmaroon 17y ago
  Right, but that sadly wasn't the point of the original post. Like most MG Seigler entries, it was logically incoherent and claimed that Twitter "wins" because CNN broke a story there before they broke it on their news. That's just dumb.
netcan 17y ago
For CNN to break something on cable it has to be really important. There is a very serious filter there. It must be important. Twitter requires no such filter. This allows much more breaking news through.

terpua 17y ago

That is my point. Someone else (a normal person) breaks a major flooding news in her area via Internet/twitter before CNN or other MSM. In our area at least, it would be at least 10 minutes or more before our MSM gets any news on this. Another recent example, tied to the flooding, we had brownouts but the MSM was reporting incorrect brownout schedules. We went to twitter and got the tweets directly from the utility company. This example is not breaking news per se but it affects our daily lives. Sorry if that wasn't clear before.

mattmaroon 17y ago
Right, but that sadly wasn't the point of the original post. Like most MG Seigler entries, it was logically incoherent and claimed that Twitter "wins" because CNN broke a story there before they broke it on their news. That's just dumb.

netcan 17y ago

For CNN to break something on cable it has to be really important. There is a very serious filter there. It must be important. Twitter requires no such filter. This allows much more breaking news through.