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24 hour Twitter people

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From Bristol East MP Kerry McCarthy..

OK, still only semi-Twitterate, even after my briefing from Sam at the Pervasive Media Studio on Friday, but things are happening…

On February 12th it’s the anniversary of Twitter, and Bristol will be celebrating in style – have a look at http://twitter.com/bristwestival and Bristol Twestival on Facebook for info. It’s for a good cause, charity:water, and it’s a party, so what more do you need to persuade you? I assume some Twittering will be involved too… or is it Tweeting? Sam did tell me… He also explained what pervasive media was, but let’s just say I’m not quite ready to answer questions on that yet. Sounds like they have fun though.

Twitterers are hair-trigger communicators?

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Criticisms of the value of Twitter post-Mumbai from the Independent’s Tom Sutcliffe:

“Twitterers are hair-trigger communicators, and presumably absolutely itching to get something of substance into their despatches. Whereas a journalist has a reasonably strong incentive not to broadcast misleading or dubious information, because such an eventuality would come with a professional cost, a Twitterer owes no duty except to their own impressions and their own state of mind. They’ll pass on rumour as readily as fact, and there’s absolutely no way of telling which is which.”

As someone who has been a journalist and is now a Twitterer this piece from Tom Sutcliffe is certainly worth a look. Fact is though journalists have their own form of built-in bias, of a more sophisticated sort no doubt.