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Quinta-feira, 27/11/2008 Defesa eloqüente do Twitter Julio Daio Borges Trechos de um post do grande Michael Arrington, intitulado "I Can't Believe Some People Are Still Saying Twitter Isn't A News Source" (não vou traduzir, aprendam a ler em inglês), sobre a importância do Twitter: * Twitter is emerging as a major force in breaking news; * Today we saw yet another illustration, when people in Mumbai got the word of terrorist attacks out to the world well before mainstream media even knew something was happening; * Twitter[...] it's the first place I go to get an idea of what's going on. Years ago I would have turned to the cable news channels, now it's Twitter; * The facts seem to be irrefutable. But some people disagree... The reason? The facts [in Twitter] are often wrong; * This is the same argument that mainstream journalists used against blogs[...] Yet even the NY Times admitted[...] that blogs were an important news source when disaster struck: "For vivid reporting from the enormous zone of tsunami disaster, it was hard to beat the blogs"; * But blogs are nothing compared to Twitter, which lets anyone with a cell phone instantly update the world with what they see and hear, via the simple and ubiquitous text message; * You can jump up and down and shout all you want that Twitter isn't a real news source. But all you are doing is viewing the world through a reality lens that's way outdated... Julio Daio Borges |
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