Comments on: Breaking news can up your follower count! http://businessontwitter.co.uk/twitter/2009/01/breaking-news-can-up-your-follower-count/ Because Twitter's not just for twits ;) Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:14:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Conspirama http://businessontwitter.co.uk/twitter/2009/01/breaking-news-can-up-your-follower-count/comment-page-1/#comment-1634 Conspirama Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:54:25 +0000 http://businessontwitter.co.uk/twitter/?p=177#comment-1634 <strong>Breaking news can up your follower count! | Business on Twitter...</strong> Interesting to see the increase in followers that @jkrums got yesterday. He was allegedly the first to post pictures of yesterday's Hudson River plane crash,... Breaking news can up your follower count! | Business on Twitter…

Interesting to see the increase in followers that @jkrums got yesterday. He was allegedly the first to post pictures of yesterday’s Hudson River plane crash,…

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]]> By: Wayne Smallman http://businessontwitter.co.uk/twitter/2009/01/breaking-news-can-up-your-follower-count/comment-page-1/#comment-1631 Wayne Smallman Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:18:58 +0000 http://businessontwitter.co.uk/twitter/?p=177#comment-1631 The thing that concerned me (which I Twittered at the time) was the number of people talking about the "kewl" factor of how Twitter was beating traditional media to the news. Yes, it's intriguing, but I was seeing comments along the lines of: "Wow! Great photos of Hudson plain crash on TwitPics [url]" and: "Who needs CNN when you've got Twitter?" I have to question the medium when it's little more than a technological syringe for people to deliver their news fix... The thing that concerned me (which I Twittered at the time) was the number of people talking about the “kewl” factor of how Twitter was beating traditional media to the news.

Yes, it’s intriguing, but I was seeing comments along the lines of: “Wow! Great photos of Hudson plain crash on TwitPics [url]” and: “Who needs CNN when you’ve got Twitter?”

I have to question the medium when it’s little more than a technological syringe for people to deliver their news fix…

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