theseminal.com — The first in a series looking what we can learn from the recent outbreak of Skittlemania on Twitter. Lesson #1: Activists and poets ? and anybody else who wants media attention without spending a lot of money ? should consider including Twitter in their plans.
Mar 22, 2009 View in Crawl 4
jon23Mar 23, 2009Submitter
There's no question that Twitter's changing rapidly, and a lot of old-timers don't like it. On the other hand everybody I talk to in the media thinks it's much more relevant these days than Digg ... which is probably why Kevin Rose is trying to get "We follow" going. So from an activist perspective, I don't see it as a waste of time. Lifestream sounds interesting though, I'll check it out.
hwaisbrenMar 23, 2009
Twitter is definitely not a waste of time, if only because of who is on it. Facebook is actively changing their site to look and act more and more like Twitter, but you couldn't possibly interact with the kind of people who have flocked to Twitter on Facebook. David Shuster in particular has embraced Twitter most vociferously, with a segment on his show dedicated to "Twitter Time". I am watching TV pundits' use of Twitter closely, as it is an unprecedentedly democratic communication channel that has been opened to activists! It's not a producer or an intern checking the tweets like it is for email---it's the people themselves who have the megaphones that can amplify any issue into the mainstream consciousness of our society!