Of course, you can choose who you follow, but quality is much less than quantity. Sander Duivestein of Sogeti puts this beautifully in his blog about the Twitter News Network . We need to look for people who understand how to filter, aggregate and connect information. Personally, I find it more difficult to distinguish between good and less good sources. Fortunately, I still have my trusted Twitter lists with people who I know are valuable to me, in whatever way. However, Twitter does not offer us any tools to help with the data overload that we are already experiencing. Let alone when we are confronted with the Web of the World from 2014, as predicted in the trend report We the Web .
The socialization of news is a fact. With your smartphone in your hand, everything is on social media paraguay phone number list like Twitter in no time. Everyone is a citizen journalist and before you know it, your tweet is going around the world, intentionally or unintentionally. This week, tweets from @reallyvirtual and @mpoppel made the world news around the death of Osama bin Laden. Or think about the first tweet about the plane crash at Schiphol.
As a 'reporting medium' and news amplifier, Twitter works sublimely, but it happens too often that incorrect messages are spread. The tone is set, before 'real' journalists can check the facts and source. That is not something the average Twitter user does. As a result, Twitter becomes a web of half or incorrect information, often announced as BREAKING news. In addition, Twitter puts journalists under time pressure, which does not necessarily contribute to the care of their reporting during the battle for news.