Twitter Reports News Faster than CNN, MSN, NYTimes and MSNBC.
It’s early Monday morning and the Social Media world is hard at work with updates on a luggage scare at JFK. One of our 60SecondTwitter followers sent a Tweet alerting everyone to a suspicious-looking package at JFK airport. She’s checked CNN and MSN for the story, but so far there’s been no mention. (According to another 60SecondTwitter follower out of Richmond, the Twitter community is also ahead of the online versions of the New York Times and MSNBC.)
If you’re into Twitter, this is just one more example of the power of social media. That’s not to say that Twitter is going to usurp CNN, the New York Times, MSNBC or MSN any time soon, far from it. It’s simply to say that social media tools like Twitter, Facebook, Del.icio.us and others are evolving quickly and that’s something we should all be aware of.
Right now, in some garage in San Fransisco, Boston, Austin or Atlanta, there are a couple of people hard at work on some evolution of Twitter or any number of other social media tools. Someday, if you’re a marketer, you’ll be using one of these tools to create a dialogue with your existing customers or your customer prospects.
It’s an exciting time in marketing and we’re glad to be on board for the ride. The key right now, if you’re a CMO, an Advertising Director or just an entrepreneur trying to get the hang of marketing, is to stay on top of these evolving tools and to try to use them to generate buzz and prospects for your business.
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Terrific job of pulling together the story quickly and posting. This incident could very well but a pivotal moment for global awareness of Twitter and associated credibility/value.
David
Sorry … typo … meant to write, “This incident could very well be a pivotal moment for global awareness of Twitter and associated credibility/value.
Hey, David — Thanks for your comment. Life seems to keep moving faster and faster. Twitter is just one more example of how quickly information moves over the internet.
These are fascinating times, indeed.
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As one of the Tweeters from the scene, I can only imagine the benefits of this tool during an incident of a much larger scale. I can definitely see how Facebook helped the Va. Tech students communicate with each during the incident there a couple of years ago, and see lots of unrealized potential on the part of first responders and our emergency management personnel. I expounded on that over on my blog at http://www.steveradick.com. Also linked back to this excellent post.
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