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Twitter Posts Not "As In Depth As You Might Like"

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 10.23.2009 5:01 PM

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Today in social networking news:

Australia's Griffith University, who recently made Twitter education part of the mandatory courseload for journalism students. According to a senior lecturer at the University, "Some students' tweets are not as in depth as you might like." The solution? Make Twitter writing practice a compulsory part of the course curriculum for would-be journalists.

Note that the senior lecturer's soundbite could have been tweeted with 80 characters to spare.

A potential upside to the course: Maybe tomorrow's journalists won't get taken to the cleaners by tomorrow's social networking gurus:

I'm sure Nick Gillespie would like me to remind you to Follow Reason on the Twitter!

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Katherine Mangu-Ward is editor in chief of Reason.

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  1. Qualis Artifex Pereo   17 years ago

    Isn't Nick Gillespie far too pissed off to fool around with Twitter?

  2. Cave Woman   17 years ago

    I must confess, up until now I thought it was "Teh Witter."

  3. jasno   17 years ago

    What a boring story. Why not follow this?

    1. Rich   17 years ago

      No need to -- it'll probably be the lead story on Monday's CBS evening news.

  4. jtuf   17 years ago

    Scientists write concisely. Journalists can.

  5. Slut Bunwalla   17 years ago

    Yeah, that's cool. Let's add classes for Twitter, a social network tool that doesn't make any money and whose owners can't figure out how to monetize. Twitter will be dead within two years, and then what are you going to do, Griffith University?

    1. Vehical Driver   17 years ago

      You are going way too far! They next thing you know you will be advocating that they remove the "Economics of Flooz" class from their undergraduate requirements!

  6. Dello   17 years ago

    The stuff about journalists and Twit(ter) is boring, but the credits at the end of the movie rock.

  7. Dagny T.   17 years ago

    I actually know the guy in that cartoon (minus the posh accent). He really does call himself a social media guru, or similar. Nice guy, bullshit profession.

    Also:

    Follow Reason on the Twitter!

    Are we still making fun of Cavanaugh, or do people really say "the Twitter"?

    1. old guy   17 years ago

      What is this Twitter? Is it this?

    2. Suki   17 years ago

      The Cavanaugh, silly boy.

  8. JW   17 years ago

    It's just like one of our Marketing/PR meetings!

    Lot's of buzzwords and complete can't-find-your-ass-with-2-hands ignorance.

    1. MadBiker   17 years ago

      or one of my faculty meetings

      1. Suki   17 years ago

        Shut the fuck up Lonewacko!

  9. 24AheadDotCom's secret feed   17 years ago

    I do the same for Twitter that I do for the rest of the web, packing my sweet tweets full of juicy information and occasional entertainment, telling my followers the things they need to know, pushing effective ideas, and on and on. In order to avoid diluting the impact of my tweets, unlike Reason, I don't usually promote the feed tending to keep it a secret.

    1. Another kevin   17 years ago

      Stf(Friday night edition)u; lonewacko!

    2. Richard Holder   17 years ago

      I'm not convinced that this post is the real lonewacko and not a troll. I feel so conflicted.

      1. Suki   17 years ago

        I feel violated after my TWO responses before seeing it is a fake.

        At least only I violated myself.

  10. 24AheadDotCom's secret feed   17 years ago

    P.S. In case anyone replies to this, their responses will almost assuredly be ad homs, thereby conceding my points and showing the childish, anti-intellectual nature of libertarians. Dozens of comments here have shown that the phrase "fascist libertarian" isn't an oxymoron.

    1. John Collins   17 years ago

      Actually if we respond with ad-hominem attacks, it's only because either a) we can't figure out what point you're trying to make in your vague original post, 2) we can't get worked up about any debates over the merits of twitter, and 3) the only thing we know for sure from your posts is that you are a dick.

  11. Suki   17 years ago

    I like this video better, but thank you K M-W!

    And SHUT THE FUCK UP LONEWACKO!

    1. @   17 years ago

      LW is the mirror of infinity.

  12. Suki   17 years ago

    This thread dies young 🙁

    1. Anita Dunn   17 years ago

      We inherited the dying thread from the Bush administration.

  13. Anonymous   17 years ago

    "I'm a twitter shitter!"

  14. Wolf   17 years ago

    http://tinyurl.com/yzkjsjf Please check out this youtube video, it's awesome telling the truth about the Gov.

  15. Jack Beeno   17 years ago

    Either way dude, it just doesnt get any better than Twitter. I mean who doesnt start their day with a Tweet?

    Jess
    http://www.anonymous.ua.tc

  16. William Walsh   17 years ago

    It's later than you think.

    . . .and I still have over 100 charecters left!

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