Apparently Twitter is contributing to the panic over swine flu. To get better information you should go to the sources of news, WHO and the like.
To be sure, I don’t think much of Twitter or its addicted twits. But other data streams, with more detail and context, can be really useful. Especially if one were suspicious of the honesty, competence, and motives of the “sources of news”. Comments like those mentioned in Chef Mojo’s 0830 update here are especially informative.
As usual, apply skepticism to everything you read. For all you know, “Yeny Gregorio Dávila” is an Al Qaeda sympathizer posting from London. On the other hand, for all you know, the published WHO and CDC data are cooked “for our own good”, to reduce panic.
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I’m not panicking over the swine flu itself. But I’m not very sanguine about the ability of our government to handle it if it does turn bad.
Twitter is just a form of conversation and society. Was conversation so much brighter and knowledgeable when it wasn’t afforded such technological avenues?
Others have noticed the signal-to-noise ratio.
Twitter - is that where a bunch of twits go online together?
Who thought of that name. One of my first reactions was a bunch of adolescents making giggling noises mooning over a teen idol.
“The girls could be heard twittering amongst themselves while leafing though the latest issue of TigerBeat”.