Monday, February 13, 2012

Twitter

This article is about how Twitter is breaking big news such as the Whitney Houston Story, and how it is revolutionizing news as we See it today. Fro example, when Whitney died twitter was the first place to have confirmed it, and have reported it.The source: The niece of Houston's hairstylist, who also knew the circumstances of the singer's death hours prior to news outlets. A second Twitter user with the handle @chilemasgrande reported the story almost thirty minutes before the Associated Press.There's reason to believe that Twitter and Facebook users in their new roles as the distributors of news on the web are becoming cautious about sharing news with their friends without personally verifying it. Also, this is the same thing that happened with Paternos situation to. Overall, the social arise of twitter is changing the way we find information today through different sources.
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/

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