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I Can’t Believe Some People Are Still Saying Twitter Isn’t A News Source
TechCrunch — ... well before mainstream media even knew something was happening. Mathew Ingram points out previous examples of Twitter users breaking important world news. ...

Mumbai Attacks: Twitter Adds to the Noise but Is Still Valuable
Profy — ... Mathew Ingram writes a great post on this particular subject stating why he is thinking that Twitter actually is a good source of news and why Twitter updates can be considered journalism in certain cases as what people actually do using the micromessaging network is reporting breaking news - even if without verification and sometimes with mistakes. ...

Will Qik Be The Next Twitter?
Technology - Channel Feed — There’s been a lot of good debate around the use of Twitter at a time of crisis with the terrorist attacks in #Mumbai.  I think its probably going to be one of those perennial topics any time there’s a crisis until Twitter becomes as mainstream as blogs, although I knew something crossed the threshold when I noticed CNN regularly including Twitter chat streams in its 2008 election coverage. Say what you like about CNN, but when a major cable news network starts using a single service as the “real-time” voice of opinion, I think its really says something ...

The information flow from Mumbai
Outside the Lines — ... question the quality of Twitter messages, which are not easily verified or tracked. Mathew Ingram argues that unverified eyewitness reports may not be accurate but they represent a "first draft of history." ...

Twitter News Network? You’ve got to be kidding
The Inquisitr » Technology — ... As convincing an argument as Mathew Ingram wrote late yesterday about how it is I think there is an important ingredient missing from his point. Which is that unsubstantiated or wrong news fill travel faster and wider than any news which corrects those first reports. By the very nature of Twitter and how one’s friend network is setup almost guarantees that while you may first hear the wrong news you won’t necessarily hear the corrected version because it might be coming from someone who isn’t a part of your ...

CNN quakes as Twitter rapid fires Mumbai news
VentureBeat — ... online services like Twitter in the past for breaking news during times of crisis like earthquakes and wildfires, now they’re definitely coming around. It shouldn’t really be a surprise the CNN is the one saying this either, one of their anchors, Rick Sanchez, has been very active in the Twitter community, using the micro-messaging service to help with his reporting for several months now. “Yes, Twitter is a source of journalism,” as blogger Mathew Ingram puts it. But CNN isn’t quite as rosy about Twitter’s ...

With Twitter, a Desperate Need for Context [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... — we get a torrent of stories heralding the legitimacy of Twitter as a news source. Their core arguments are always the same — that ...

Looking At Twitter As A News Source
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... into online technology, you've certainly heard of Twitter by now. It seems many tech blogs can't get enough of how great Twitter is. The scene reminds me a bit of Facebook about 18 months ago. Apparently there's nothing Twitter can't do. In addition to people sharing that they just rode a horse; watched a video; cleaned their apartment; ate a hamburger or took a shower, now Twitter is being utilized as a key news source. Mathew Ingram wrote a column last week about how Twitter is a, " source of journalism ". He also goes on to suggest that Twitter is a news source. Tom is of ...