news and social media

[kasavien]

I just read an article on the BBC news about the o2 outage and its made me a bit irrationally angry. Not at the o2 outage (I'm on o2 typing this on my phone) but at the article itself and the insistence on using tweets. What do I care what some pleb on twitter says, they can't type more than a limited set of words so what are the chances they are going to have anything meaningful to say in relation to the article. Tweets don't even usefully give a general feeling of what 'everyone' thinks, they're not scientific and very rarely are they even factual, so why use them in a news article.

The BBC used to be better, they used to be a reliable source of information about what's happening in the world. Why can't journalists do the job they're paid for instead of padding out their flimsy articles with unimportant yammering.

/rant

[Lee @ SCAN]

What was ironic was their twitter feed was saying to use the O2 service page and because of the amount of users trying to get updates it was falling over until about 10pm last night.

[MadduckUK]

Press releases tarted up like news articles

What was ironic was their twitter feed was saying to use the O2 service page and because of the amount of users trying to get updates it was falling over until about 10pm last night.

It's like rain on your wedding day!

[Smudger]

The TV news articles annoyed me, people saying 'I couldn't contact anyone, our customers couldn't get us on the phone to place orders, etc'. Do people not have land lines any more? FFS...