Journalists take to the Twitterverse
“IT’S Tuesday and I’m at a forum on the topic “Twitter’s Impact on Media and Journalism”, busily taking down the speeches in shorthand. As I do, the business-suited woman sitting on my left is tweeting about me on her laptop” – what a great opening line from journalist, Sally Jackson of The Australian.
Today, on the front page of the Media section of The Australian, Sally has written a fabulous article about how Journalists are taking to the Twitterverse. Sally was at our event, Twitters Impact on Media and Journalism last Tuesday and echo’s a lot of what was discussed at the event. What I found so interesting was the fact that Sally used Twitter to to get caught up on what happened after the event took place, by having a look at the Twitter Hash Tag (#TIMJ). Straight away, she is an example of how Twitter can not only be a great source of immediate information, but also for archived information.
Being a child of the 80′s, I was keen to see if I could find any new knowledge in the archive from the Twitter stream, #MichaelJackson. As you can probably imagine, I did find something new and am now starting to think that Twitter may have a place in the archived media landscape. I wonder if the media outlets are using Twitter in this way? And how will this impact the future of tweets?
In the article Sally also quotes local media personality Mia Freedman as saying, “It’s a time sucker. It’s addictive. You can ride Twitter all day.” She’s right. If you’re not focused, Twitter can take away precious time that should be better spent working. Hmmm… I think I better leave my curiosity of Michael Jacksons death to the main stream media, get this post up and get back to work.
