Twitter still making twits of mainstream journalists - 0 views
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It looks as though the columnists are closing ranks. In recent weeks Twitter users have raged against the Mail’s Jan Moir for bigotry and AA Gill for baboon shooting. Any one of them could be next. The Commentariat is under threat.
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They’re mistaking Twitter for a publishing platform, which – as I’ve written before – it isn’t. To criticise Twitter for its content (or, I should say, your perception of its content) makes as much sense as criticising the content of the telephone networks or the postal service. Like them, Twitter is a means of communicating. The content communicated has no bearing on its value.
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It’s now possible for columnists and companies to hear what people are saying about them. That’s unnerving for columnists, not least because their opinions are now frequently challenged by people who know more than they do. Instead of responding like adults – correcting when they’ve made a mistake, engaging when someone raises a sensible point and defending themselves from false accusations – they are whining like children and dismissing technologies that they don’t understand.
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Shane Richmond at the Daily Telegraph criticizes other columnists for criticizing Twitter when they clearly know next to nothing about the microblogging site.
