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I would like to see Twitter

Terp — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:44:35 -0400

I would like to see Twitter filter/block all major media outlets from using their services, much like ;old media' did to their news wires. ;)

This was how I felt when,

@thoughtshot — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:00:41 -0400

This was how I felt when, early in the election propaganda, someone said "Barack Obama is too young and inexperienced." Before long, everyone was repeating the same garbage. Glad we overcame that one.

Same thing about Sarah Palin being "more experienced."
It's laughable, but people will believe anything if they hear it over and over again...

"Diet Coke will help you lose weight" is another favorite "repeat it until they believe it" phrase.

The real "winner" is the

Christopher S. Rollyson — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:00:27 -0400

The real "winner" is the media, who's terrified of #UPI2.0 - whenever legacy media does a "helpful" story about the ills/dangers of Web 2.0, realize they are FAR from being impartial. We're talking about major disintermediation here. Media will have to go up the value chain or continue to lose readers with alacrity; the big opportunity for them is to pair their unique competencies with all of us. We are everythere, and they need to tap us in a transparent, honest way.

See the blog entry I wrote

Rob Dolin — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:53:01 -0400

See the blog entry I wrote at http://blog.robdolin.com/ that provides an intro to Twitter.

WaySouth Media, Inc. to

SpaceyG on Twitter — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:05:55 -0400

WaySouth Media, Inc. to acquire Twitter. But not until I lose 10 lbs.

SOL! (Snort Out Loud)

SpaceyG — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:02:23 -0400

SOL! (Snort Out Loud)

what is twitter?

dev — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:22:33 -0400

what is twitter?

This is a brilliant

Gary Culliss — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:38:57 -0400

This is a brilliant prediction! It will be entertaining to see it play out and then cite this article.

Unfortunately, it's also possible that the media's awareness of this article actually keeps it from happening, which would be a shame...

The media's fake Twitter backlash begins

Paul Boutin — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:23:30 -0400

If you've been waiting for the inevitable Twitter backlash, the fun starts now. Sure, CNN ran an "is there a Twitter backlash?" story last month. But for those of us who work in the media, we knew the question mark in the headline meant the answer was "No."

Today, as Oprah tweets on TV, the New York Observer made it official: "The backlash begins." You don't read the Observer, but every status-obsessed journalist in Manhattan does. It's now officially cool to do a Twitter Backlash story.

Here's how it works:

The Observer says there's a backlash.
A Gartner analyst uses the article to say there's a media backlash to Twitter. He's right: It's in the Observer, which means that it will be repeated by the most trend-conscious journalists all over Manhattan. Didn't you know about the Twitter backlash? It was in the Observer.
Many of those journalists will now quote Gartner, a widely respected technology analyst firm, that there's a Twitter backlash.
The backlash topic will become a hot Twitter topic: #backlash
Didn't you know there's a Twitter backlash? It's all over Twitter.

The real winner? CNN, who will claim to have broken the story.

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