Twitter is AWESOME

[NickMordo]

The OBL jokes on Twitter are top notch...

"OBL will be the next Tupac, releasing videos two years after his death"
"Is Osama or Obama dead? Neither can be found"
"Positive DNA retrieved from Monica Lewinsky's dress"

One from a friend of mine:

RIP Osama, 20-time world hide and go seek champion

D.B. Cooper is approaching his 40th consecutive Hide-and-Seek Championship. Thinks OBL is was Division III at best

True. OBL was MAC-level hide 'n seeker.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Consider the journalistic implications of that guy in Pakistan. To any news organization in the world, having a reporter on site for the death of bin Laden would've been a scoop of beyond historical dimensions, like the NYT guy who flew with the Nagasaki mission, but more so.
Some schlub with a Twitter feed WAS that reporter. He had access to an audience of millions of people. And he has no connection to formal journalism in any way.
I don't know if that's good or bad. But it's mindblowing.

 

[Shaggy]

Consider the journalistic implications of that guy in Pakistan. To any news organization in the world, having a reporter on site for the death of bin Laden would've been a scoop of beyond historical dimensions, like the NYT guy who flew with the Nagasaki mission, but more so.
Some schlub with a Twitter feed WAS that reporter. He had access to an audience of millions of people. And he has no connection to formal journalism in any way.
I don't know if that's good or bad. But it's mindblowing.

It's good.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

I compare it to the Zapruder film, Shaggy. Every person on earth has the technological means (if not always the economic means) to become an instant news organization for the provision of breaking news.
PS: Given this guy, and the fact they caught him partly because it was weird for such a big house not to have phone or Internet service, I wonder if bin Laden's last moments featured the thought "shirt, I should have signed with Comcast."

 

[mustangj17]

Consider the journalistic implications of that guy in Pakistan. To any news organization in the world, having a reporter on site for the death of bin Laden would've been a scoop of beyond historical dimensions, like the NYT guy who flew with the Nagasaki mission, but more so.
Some schlub with a Twitter feed WAS that reporter. He had access to an audience of millions of people. And he has no connection to formal journalism in any way.
I don't know if that's good or bad. But it's mindblowing.

It's good.

Last night was a great night for social media and today has been a great day for newspapers and mainstream media. Museum's site can barely load today because people are looking at front pages. And just about every site has great stories right now. I can't remember a day where I've read so many well-written things.

The way we get our news is changing, but today is showing there is still a tremendous need for solid journalism.

 

[Gutter]

We resume our regular Twitteridiocy, already in progress:

http://www.twitter.com/R_Mendenhall

 

[RickStain]

I wish I could accuse the Truthers of ignorance. They somehow manage to have all the facts and still come to a spectacularly wrong conclusion.

 

[poindexter]

Dumbass hs basketball player tweeted about his bogus, 3-person spanish class.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014963687_garfield05.html

Got the hs AD fired.

Twitter is AWESOME

 

[GidalKaiser]

The new social media age is great. It's allowed players to become their own PR people, but also allowed journalists to keep up with them and offer real-time breaking news directly from players/organizations, etc.

 

[poindexter]

Mendenhall's tweet gets him fired from his Champion sponsorship.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gameon/post/2011/05/rashard-mendenhall-fired-by-champion-over-osama-bin-laden-comments/1

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Dumbass hs basketball player tweeted about his bogus, 3-person spanish class.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014963687_garfield05.html

Got the hs AD fired.

Twitter is AWESOME

They would have got away with it if it weren't for that damn, meddling Twitter!

 

[hondo]

Then you've got Gigi Meyer, daughter of Urban Meyer, who tweeted this:

http://www.lostlettermen.com/gigi-meyer-espn/?utm_source=moggy

Another public service for Twitter. Urban Meyer resigned twice at Florida. Both times, he used his family as props. The second time, he mentioned that he'd like to see his daughter play volleyball. But apparently he's away from the family just as much working for ESPN. Gigi Meyer let us know, in less than 140 characters, and a disingenuous person her father is.