Twits

Hagar · 12 Dec 2017 at 12:58

Why is twitter ever reported as news?

Some of the most moronic news items seem to develop from what has been 'posted' on twitter by some 'celebrity twit'

Personally I would nuke the twitter server at the first opportunity.

Vonhelmet · 12 Dec 2017 at 13:00

It's easy, lazy journalism that people lap up. You can spin a whole story that is apparently clickworthy out of a single line that someone's said.

FishFluff · 12 Dec 2017 at 13:28

nkata said:
Why is twitter ever reported as news?

Some of the most moronic news items seem to develop from what has been 'posted' on twitter by some 'celebrity twit'

Personally I would nuke the twitter server at the first opportunity.

Because people keep clicking those links.

VincentHanna · 12 Dec 2017 at 13:34

Well the President of the most powerful country on earth uses it as a mouthpiece, so it has become pretty important.

Kainz · 12 Dec 2017 at 13:38

I recall when Twitter was an excellent source of breaking news years ago when a plane crash landed into a large lake or something to that end in the states. It's a horrible source of news now as anything and everything is ruined by the 'retweets' function so news can instantly spread out of control. The fun/chatty aspect of the service has long gone in favour of SJW's and political crap.

V F · 12 Dec 2017 at 14:42

Kainz said:
I recall when Twitter was an excellent source of breaking news years ago when a plane crash landed into a large lake or something to that end in the states. It's a horrible source of news now as anything and everything is ruined by the 'retweets' function so news can instantly spread out of control. The fun/chatty aspect of the service has long gone in favour of SJW's and political crap.

Twitter was great for breaking news? I disagree. I remember when it was good before every news corp and their journalists/news readers hijacked it and made it their platform. Including the politicians that all jumped on.

Now we have bloomin twitter tv across mostly every tv channel. Hence why I rarely every watch live tv these days. Why would I want to know about all the gossip and guff that happens? For everyone to share these days. Including the sports channels.

FoxEye · 12 Dec 2017 at 14:50

Why does the "news" now interview random "man on the street" type for their non-expert opinonions?

"Now over to Joe Bloggs with his reaction to today's events."
"I done reckon it's bad, like. My grandpa told me not to get no vaccinations."
"There you have it, Julie. These opinions are surely of equal weight to people with a basic understanding of this subject, because reasons."
"Thanks Jim. Looks like the people of Blackbugle village won't be getting their flu jabs this year, then. In other news..."

The "live twitter feeds" scrolling across the bottom with real-time Facebook-level crap-posting is especially enriching.

h4rm0ny · 12 Dec 2017 at 15:00

FoxEye said:
Why does the "news" now interview random "man on the street" type for their non-expert opinonions?

"Now over to Joe Bloggs with his reaction to today's events."
"I done reckon it's bad, like. My grandpa told me not to get no vaccinations."
"There you have it, Julie. These opinions are surely of equal weight to people with a basic understanding of this subject, because reasons."
"Thanks Jim. Looks like the people of Blackbugle village won't be getting their flu jabs this year, then. In other news..."

The "live twitter feeds" scrolling across the bottom with real-time Facebook-level crap-posting is especially enriching.

True story: I was interviewed by the BBC "on the street" once. They were out getting "reactions" and made the mistake of stopping me. Being actually informed on the subject, I gave a concise and, I felt well-considered reply. The interviewer asked me the same question in a couple of different ways and I again gave pretty much the same answer before just saying: "I'm not really giving you what you want here, am I?" to which she agreed and toddled off to find someone who give her the guppie-like response she wanted.

"Reaction" is so much a part of modern 'news'. News is often mere entertainment these days. And what entertains is not reasoned opinion but shock and disbelief.

adolf hamster · 12 Dec 2017 at 16:18

it scares me when newspapers are citing twitter, in text, cmon guys the only people who give a flying [redacted] about what @someguy #hashtagged on twitter already know and the people that dont care are being fed inane drivel as if it's real news.

must be a great job being a journalist these days, just sit on twitter mashing f5 and copy-paste yourself an article.

Kainz · 12 Dec 2017 at 16:23

V F said:
Twitter was great for breaking news? I disagree. I remember when it was good before every news corp and their journalists/news readers hijacked it and made it their platform. Including the politicians that all jumped on.

Now we have bloomin twitter tv across mostly every tv channel. Hence why I rarely every watch live tv these days. Why would I want to know about all the gossip and guff that happens? For everyone to share these days. Including the sports channels.

I did say 'years ago', hence it correlates with your very comment about remembering when it was good. The 'retweets' feature imo ruined the service totally.

LabR@t · 12 Dec 2017 at 16:25

nkata said:
Why is twitter ever reported as news?

Some of the most moronic news items seem to develop from what has been 'posted' on twitter by some 'celebrity twit'

Personally I would nuke the twitter server at the first opportunity.

i detest fb, twitter etc

MikeTheNative · 12 Dec 2017 at 16:27

The one that annoys me is when X 'causes outage', then you look at the story and it's about 5 people on Twitter complaining.

stopper · 12 Dec 2017 at 16:28

VincentHanna said:
Well the President of the most powerful country on earth uses it as a mouthpiece, so it has become pretty important.

It's very easy to convince "twitter news readers" that it is the most powerful country in the world, so it has become pretty important.

Derek W · 12 Dec 2017 at 17:06

Vonhelmet said:
It's easy, lazy journalism that morons lap up.

FIFY

Malevolence · 12 Dec 2017 at 17:44

MikeTheNative said:
The one that annoys me is when X 'causes outage', then you look at the story and it's about 5 people on Twitter complaining.

You don't know do you? One complaint equals one billion people.

Pawnless Endgame · 12 Dec 2017 at 18:04

What I don't get is why people / celebs are having to apologise for tweets that they wrote 7 years ago when they were aged 13 back then? I mean if what they wrote was a direct attack on someone, it would be a matter for the mods, like how we have Dons over here on OcUK. If what they wrote was just 'offensive', then you may as well ban all comedy programs and films

Dirk Diggler · 12 Dec 2017 at 18:08

I don't use any social media. It's just utter nonsense now. In fact, I'm not much drawn by any form of media.

V F · 13 Dec 2017 at 14:23

Kainz said:
I did say 'years ago', hence it correlates with your very comment about remembering when it was good. The 'retweets' feature imo ruined the service totally.

I’d also say today retweet is used as a weapon to assasinate ones character these days. That and everything has become so damn political.