Twitter: will it work for newspapers?
Twitter was created in March 2006 by Evan Williams as a project for Obvious Corporation, San Francisco. Twitter enables any user to publish for free mini-postings or comments from their mobile, instant messenger or online. This new feature could not only change personal communications but could also be used by newspapers online, to increase feedback and interactivity.
Twitter is an interesting social networking website that allows anybody to communicate at all times, by asking the questions “Where are you? What are you doing?” This innovative tool makes it easier to exchange - trivial - ideas, thoughts and feelings.
At this moment, there are about 80,000 Twitter users. It isn´t possible to send messages of more than 140 characters, so users have developed new words. For example: twittering means send a message; twitterrhea means a lot of twittering; twittermaps is a technology to find maps.The Financial Times analyzes the impact of Twitter and seems still uncertain as to its potential use. “Opinions are divided on whether to love or hate Twitter and whether it is full of useless minutiae or useful information.”
On the other hand, Twitter already counts its share of fanatics.
“Photo blogger Thomas Hawk finds it as addictive as Flickr and says: It is the micro blogging platform du jour, allows me to stay in contact with over 400 people, serves as a great daily record of what I’ve been up to for archive purposes, and is fun as hell,” reports Financial Times.
Dane Power, a computer scientist from North Carolina, tells to the Chicago Tribune that in the past she didn´t talk with her brother. Now, with Twitter, she knows what he is doing at any moment. “Twitter makes me feel so close to him,” said Power to the Tribune.
According to the experts of Silicon Valley, this new service of miniblog for cell phones and PDA will be as successful as Youtube or Myspace. The Wall Street Journal reported an explosive growth of Twitter.com. Every week Twitter grows 20%.
According to the Financial Times, Twitter will make important changes. Jonathan Schwartz, guru and president of Sun Microsystems, said that Twitter is one of the last successful features of the post-Youtube generation. Twitter could be the future, he added.
The idea is to eventually include Twitter in newspapers online, in the way YouTube is included in ElComercio.com. Twitter could be part of the trend for newspapers to publish user-generated content and readers´ experiences.
Source: Financial Times – El Periódico Digital
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