Is Twitter The New Journalism

The advent of twitter has reduced the operational expenditure of the media companies as journalist no longer hunt/run for news to various places, they get their news right in front of their computer on their screens. How ??

Step 1: Open a twitter account

Step 2: Follow all the controversial personalities, corporations and news agencies all over the world

Step3 : search it on the blogs,google and twitter feed and make a story

News comes directly on their twitter page and can easily make an issue of the tweets without sometimes understanding the context in which it has been said. And the most targeted man is shashi tharoor who has been in the news these days for his IPL and modi controversy, the birth of this controversy was the 140 character typed by Modi on his twitter account. The tweet has done enough damage to both tharoor and modi leading to resignation of tharoor and CBI enquiry on Modi and IPL. That’s the power of this medium

Internet empowers the common man as he blogs or tweets the news as an when it occurs promoting citizen journalism. Few issues appear faster on the twitter rather than news channels or any other media. Many events like the death of Michael Jackson, tiger wood controversy, pune blasts etc were first released on twitter as people tweeted and it spread much faster. Corporations these days tweet their financial results first on twitter, both the journalists and common man get access to news at the same time

How twitter has changed journalism

· Journalist directly interact and pose questions to the person/company/government

· Journalist get the public opinion directly from the audience

· Citizen journalist give the latest feed of events and journalist rename it as breaking news

Twitter has actually empowered the common man as he can directly interact with brands, corporation and leaders and news spread much faster on twitter with just a retweet. The media landscape is completely changing and the day is not far when companies will provide news only through tweets or retweets by citizen journalists.