UK Twitter experts start to circle | The new MySpace?

[Update - my Twitter page is here]

Since I posted my disseration on Twitter earlier in the week, where I said I thought the media would no doubt soon be catching on, there has been some, as if by magic, pick up in the UK media. I'm loving it. This is like when blogging started. It starts off a bit rough around the edges, but then people realise it isn't just somewhere you write what you're eating for dinner,  but something you can use to do really useful stuff. So here's what the media has started saying:

• The Guardian: What is Twitter and is there any reason I should care
• Wall St Journal: Friends swap Twitter, and frustrations (Scoble says smackdown, Tara says she was quoted out of context)
• Server Management: How businesses can use Twitter as an automated pager on steroids (yet to be published)
• The Guardian: Does Twitter reaction prove it's the new MySpace

Comments

[Ian Green]

Drew,

I agree. All your points are valid. But the deadwood media is always at least six to 12 months behind the conversation.

At the moment we are trying to push http://www.fuelmyblog.com/ and except for a few journalists a lot of people just don't get. I still have journalists asking me "so what is a blog then?"

As an former Hack this worries me because as they see their circulation fall through the floor they can't see the alternatives.

[alan p]

I posted a dissertation yesterday too, and another today on all this.

Imho you twitterbugs have found a new toy, is all :)

(Actually, I object more to the content drivel than the app itself, I think it needs new use cases and usage discipline so it can scale better)

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