Twitter is Facebook on speed

Twitter is Facebook on speed

by Twitter Guru on Jun 9, 2009

The "Micro-Blogging" Tool twitter has grown by 1,000% the past year and are now a few million new users each month. All the European media have articles or broadcasts about the phenomenon of the last month. And now follows the media houses such suit to plow their own content to the "channel". But we need a little reflection, for what it really, the media can use to Twitter?

Twitters breakthrough in Europe
But let us begin with the beginning. Or rather rebirth. Twitter has lived a quiet life in Europe the first few years.

The rebirth occurred on 25 February, when a Turkish Airlines aircraft crashed at Schiphol airport in Holland. It was a breakthrough for European tweeting, where users, as usual, was quick to report the news and pictures, Twitter was previously fastest in the crash of Hudson River and the terrorist attack in Mombai.

Several foreign media sites used twitter active on that day. A couple of Norwegian newspapers...Read More >>