Not surprisingly, these bits of love I gather that bring Twitter into the headlines are generally gathered on Wednesday to be as timely as possible. The problem with that is that Twitter and news headlines are juxtaposed so ubiquitously that this post rarely spans more than two days of time.
In the future I promise to check a couple times a week to guarantee you're getting the cream of the Twitter crop when it comes to news once a week.
And starting today, the link to the article will simply be the subheader which will always double as the copy for the headline of the article. No reason to get all complicated.
Jaclyn Smith announces she is not dead on Twitter
Wow, that's funny that she had to... um, who?
Just kidding. Kind of.
Jaclyn was the victim of [Celebrity below serious fandom] was in [foreign country] and died when [an accident befell them]. Recently happened to Jeff Goldblum.
She put down the rumor with one tweet: "Jaclyn is safe and home with her family. She is not in Honduras. It is a lie."
Lesson? People, please verify things. You're like a nation of my aunt forwarding emails that Bill Gates is going to give you money with your RT buttons. Yes. That bad.
Redskins & Twitter
Fans booed Redskins' Coach Zorn. Rookie linebacker Robert Henson sends tweet "saying that the booing fans were dimwits. Henson also wrote: 'Who are you to say you know what’s best for the team and you work 9 to 5 at McDonalds.'"
Boo hoo. The Sports-coach-player-Twitter meme was tired weeks ago: Player tweets something, rules are undefined, drama ensues. They need to make a policy and assign fines and be done with it. So unless we have crime or espionage in that loop, this'll be my last sports related Twitter reporting.
MySpace Expands Twitter Syncing To Six New Countries
MySpace is allowing you to synch your Twitter 2 ways with your MySpace account. While I do still appreciate MySpace for my indie music fix, this innovation is tantamount to announcing that the VCR can make toast. "What MySpace won't tell me is how many total users have synchronized their accounts so far." I'm sure it is a closely-guarded and heart-wrenching number.
MySpace still has its place and still does a couple things quite well, but is, well, like talking about Jaclyn Smith at the Oscars.
Actual people physically gather to talk Twitter
This inept platitude of a headline may be witty in circles that know next to nothing about Twitter, but a solid case in point for news organizations having someone who knows what the heck is going on in social media. The blurb is talking about the Twitter conference in LA.
One of the things I have been evangelizing about over the past several months has been social media - including Twitter - being the bounce-off point of real, human interaction. We are currently living in a society and job market where a presence online is not enough. Social media is not enough. If you want the job, if you want the contact, if you want the contract, you show up and put yourself out there, and Tweetups are nothing new. Commerce is decentralizing and you need to be the expert in your field and the face and the brand and the salesperson. All in one.
Twitter and meeting is no longer new; it is necessary.
And the AP headline about the Twitter summit (which in and of itself appears to be more hip than practical) was, plainly, ignorant.
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