Clearly this blog is not Twitter. I say that because aside from the obvious reasons (look around) its taken me more than three days to write about the little drama that follows, whereas it took Twitter less than 20 minutes. Over the weekend those of you glued to Twitter would have almost certainly seen Google was having an issue or two. The search engine was returning searches and listing every page as potential malware with the warning ‘this site may harm your computer. The malfunction which Google later apologised for lasted no more than half an hour and in an era past might not have even been a story unless a journalist happened to be using the search engine during this time. Yet with such discussion around the issue taking place so quickly on Twitter it seemed to emphasise or underline the event and make it mainstream news... http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/31/google-blacklist-internet
We’ve already seen Twitter become the source for first information about news stories which will later blanket the traditional media (the plane crash photos first emerged via twitter for example) but we are beginning to see with increasing frequency, twitter conversation impacting the news stories that actually make it in to the mainstream media.
What do you think? Without the Twitter conversation would Google have taken less of a hammering?
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