After a brief email discussion over the ‘Twitter in Decline‘ article with a few office buddies, our PR director stated Twitter is the new “AP Wire”. Taking into consideration that Facebook recently trumped Google in U.S. visitors, Twitter is on track to be the new Associated Press.
Twitter will never be the number one social tool like Facebook, because Twitter is news syndication.
Newspapers, journals, magazines, etc. are on Twitter and frequently post breaking news stories. As the story gets retweeted to the millions of people on Twitter, the story eventually reaches you.
Twitter is how news and information is shared, not how people choose to communicate. We’d rather text our friends or talk to them on Facebook because the communication is more direct. We don’t have to scroll through the hundreds of tweets, or check the reply box every few minutes to know when someone has replied to your tweet.
Sure there is some level of communication on Twitter among your “community”, you can probably list about ten to fifteen followers you chat with on a daily basis. The rest are there to find out information, which is why some people don’t understand, or like, Twitter.
Twitter is becoming the ultimate breaking news tool, even the AP knows it.
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