Comments on: Mumbai and Social Media: Data is Not News

By: D2.0 Exclusive: In-Flight Photos from US Airways Flight 1549 Crash Discovered on Twitter : The Drama 2.0 Show

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:54:58 +0000

[...] last time, I have to concede that social media is beating the mainstream media hands down. [...]

By: Mumbai, media, raw data and news cycles

Mumbai, media, raw data and news cycles — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:25:00 +0000

[...] mainstream reporting. As others have noted, such signal to noise problems make Twitter less an information channel than a stream of raw data. [...]

By: Cision.net Blogs » Blog Archive » Mumbai, media, raw data and news cycles

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:18:55 +0000

[...] responses to mainstream reporting. As others have noted, such signal to noise problems make Twitter less an information channel than a stream of raw data. [...]

By: Tim Malbon

Tim Malbon — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:45:32 +0000

Yes, totally agree about both Twitter’s immaturity, and its ‘fans’ inability to understand the differences between ‘news’ and ‘conversation/rumour/race-hate/irrelevance’. I’ve written two posts about this – the first in stunned disbelief on the night (when Twitter SHOULD have been much more useful) and one yesterday. Both include a lot of screenshots taken from the Mumbai search feed – some are comical, but they illustrate the points you are making here and demonstrate that Mr Arrington is living in cloud cuckoo land.

‘Mumbai: flash mob or social media in action?’ can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/62w8nk

And ‘Bring on the #moron filter’ can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/65ag4u

Please let me know what you think.

Tim

By: Drama 2.0

Drama 2.0 — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:18:57 +0000

allen: I love Mahalo. It’s the only SEO/link farm website I’ve ever seen that clearly doesn’t know how to make money. I go there often just to stare in wonder.

By: allen

allen — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:02:05 +0000

you went to mahalo? there goes your holiday gift

By: Terrible Swift Word » Blog Archive » Mumbai and Twitter - The Legend Continues

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:56:09 +0000

[...] on the back for the “coverage” of the Mumbai attacks provided therein. And once again Drama 2.0 is handling the debunking duties quite capably. This entry was posted on Monday, December 1st, 2008 at 9:55 am and is filed [...]

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:03:57 +0000

Hah, yes amen to your article. I like to stay up to date with news and current events – but hell, I can live with finding out things 5 hours after they happened when I wake up to read the paper in the morning =)

Like you mention, Ive never understood the “power” of seeing millions of mostly irrelevant tweets coming through when I could just read a mainstream media source and get some (mostly) verifiable facts.

By: Drama 2.0

Drama 2.0 — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:01:07 +0000

Steve: you make some valid points. Unfortunately for social media proponents, I am still unaware that anyone in the midst of the attacks was sending tweets about the experience as it was occurring.

From what I can tell, there were people in India (including in Mumbai) tweeting and they were usually passing along information they were hearing through their mainstream news media.

But this is really a moot point. Trying to find interesting, useful and credible tweets when every idiot is tweeting about a breaking news story is like trying to find a hot woman at a TechCrunch event. In other words, you have a better chance of buying a used Honda Civic and opening the trunk to find 20 kilos of cocaine.

By: Another Step for Social Media « Bits and Bids

Another Step for Social Media « Bits and Bids — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:22:26 +0000

[...] to sift through large amounts of information, the on-scene twitterers provided great information. Some contrarians are downplaying social media’s role in the events by making the distinction between data and [...]