Is Twitter journalism?
Thursday, November 27, 2008 by Dave Winer.
What you see on Twitter, when: 
1. People witness events that others are interested in; and
2. They're posting about it on Twitter; and
3. The interested people are reading their posts...
It certainly is news. Whether it's journalism or not isn't a very interesting discussion, to me.
To the user, both extremes, Twitter and the most vetted pro news, require skepticism. The reader triangulates.
See also: Mike Arrington, Mathew Ingram.
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