Maybe I'm grumpy because the caffeine hasn't been absorbed into my brain cells but I am PO'd. I went to the CJ web site to see what's going on in my fair city (and about) and see where there is a section devoted to "tweets". You can sign up to receive tweets from the CJ reporters on your cell phone or laptop. (Just so you can have the up to the second news RIGHT NOW. THIS INSTANT with no in depth research. Let's call it "KNEE JERK NEWS") So I'm thinking, "Hmmmm. This sounds interesting. Let's see what kind of tweets I would have gotten had I signed up for the service." So I check out the tweets. It was pretty much line after line of drivel mixed in with some helpful info about traffic but primarily nothing. To make matters worse the general public is invited to add their tweets to the reporters tweets. After reading some of the comments from the public that typically run after full blown articles the last thing I want to read are their twitterings.
Do people really want this sort of nonsense? Anyone can post, there is no way to validate anything. It just seems like an quick/easy way to spread rumors and slander. I think it also gives the false impression to the public that they are well informed when in fact what they've heard may just be rumor after rumor. Why can't they spend more time researching some real news?
I wonder if any of the reporters tweeted the story out of the UK that says more than 70% of tweets get ignored?