Comments on: Social media provides a forum for rumors, but mainstream media helps smart people cull out the garbage http://demicooper.com/blog/2009/06/26/social-media-provides-a-forum-for-rumors-but-mainstream-media-helps-smart-people-cull-out-the-garbage/ Keeping marketing professionals in touch with new advertising and web techniques, services, software, design and media. Mon, 02 Aug 2010 02:27:36 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Justine http://demicooper.com/blog/2009/06/26/social-media-provides-a-forum-for-rumors-but-mainstream-media-helps-smart-people-cull-out-the-garbage/comment-page-1/#comment-822 Justine Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:47:36 +0000 http://demicooper.com/blog/?p=628#comment-822 I think that you put it well when you say that both forms of media are important for different reasons. I will say that I love the trending topics on Twitter, but whenever I see something such as "Michael Jackson is dead" I have to question if people are blowing it out of proportion or if they are correct before I go re-tweeting it all over the place. So, no matter what I find out from Twitter, the information is always questionable and leads me to search out the internet and bigger news sites such as CNN and TMZ to see if the rumors are true. The down side to all of this is that Twitter is so fast to deliver and spread the news that when I found out that Michael Jackson had passed, the only reliable web site that had the information posted was TMZ. So I guess that's where the ball is dropped. I found TMZ's Twitter page, but quickly realized they never used it. If they are going to try to be the first to break the news when it comes to big events, then they should be using this tool to their advantage! I would much rather see a tweet from them in this case then a tweet from people I don't know regarding Jackson's death. That's the part of this that I don't understand. The traditional news needs to embrace Twitter and use it to their advantage, not be angry with people for using it. I'm sure they will find many followers since TMZ's account has over 15,000 of them without even using it. I think that you put it well when you say that both forms of media are important for different reasons. I will say that I love the trending topics on Twitter, but whenever I see something such as “Michael Jackson is dead” I have to question if people are blowing it out of proportion or if they are correct before I go re-tweeting it all over the place. So, no matter what I find out from Twitter, the information is always questionable and leads me to search out the internet and bigger news sites such as CNN and TMZ to see if the rumors are true.

The down side to all of this is that Twitter is so fast to deliver and spread the news that when I found out that Michael Jackson had passed, the only reliable web site that had the information posted was TMZ. So I guess that’s where the ball is dropped. I found TMZ’s Twitter page, but quickly realized they never used it. If they are going to try to be the first to break the news when it comes to big events, then they should be using this tool to their advantage! I would much rather see a tweet from them in this case then a tweet from people I don’t know regarding Jackson’s death. That’s the part of this that I don’t understand. The traditional news needs to embrace Twitter and use it to their advantage, not be angry with people for using it. I’m sure they will find many followers since TMZ’s account has over 15,000 of them without even using it.

]]> By: Sam http://demicooper.com/blog/2009/06/26/social-media-provides-a-forum-for-rumors-but-mainstream-media-helps-smart-people-cull-out-the-garbage/comment-page-1/#comment-818 Sam Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:11:27 +0000 http://demicooper.com/blog/?p=628#comment-818 This is very interesting to see the progression of news through this form. I first saw the news of MJ on the facebook statuses of 2 friends and then I went to twitter search to check. I would have never done that 6 months ago, but now I find that twitter is the first place I go to see what everyone is saying. Knowing it is just coming from other people I take it with a grain of salt though. This is very interesting to see the progression of news through this form. I first saw the news of MJ on the facebook statuses of 2 friends and then I went to twitter search to check. I would have never done that 6 months ago, but now I find that twitter is the first place I go to see what everyone is saying. Knowing it is just coming from other people I take it with a grain of salt though.

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