Tweet or talk?
Twitter’s the rage but let’s connect for real, so says Ewe Jin, a former Jelutong.
It's deja vu for this former court reporter who is now deputy executive editor at The Star.
There had been a sea-change in news flows these days, with Twitter beating SMS news alerts flat on speed and "detailed" summaries. Ewe Jin says:
When the Court of Appeal sat to deliver its judgment on the case of the two Mentri Besar in Perak last Friday, I got the news instantly by monitoring a blogger’s Twitter.
The SMS news alert via my handphone came much later.
Malaysia isn't the earliest to adopt Tweets to aid news-flow.
The November 2008 terrorist attacks on Mumbai was chronicled ahead of CNN and Al-Jazeera by eye-witnesses on the ground, Tweet by Tweet.
Wikipedia records that an estimated 80 tweets every five seconds were sent out as the Mumbai tragedy unfolded. Those 140-character-per-max-Tweet also helped send out vital information, pointing people to emergency phone numbers and the location of hospitals that needed blood donations.
Your views, tweet-talkers out there? Will theSun also Tweet?
Comments
20 years back, I was asked in a survey.. Will I ever use a handphone? I answered NO....
10 years back, I was intoduced to sms... found how cumbersome it was, pressing each letter till my fingers hurt...
NOW, I use a handphone, I sms... and soon I'll tweet unless I'm overtaken another form of tech-communication !!!
To Tweet or not to tweet.. it's a NO-BRAINER !!!
Cheers YB !!! Chirp-chirp ..
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May 25, 2009 12:02 PM