The six stages of media twitter coverage hell

April 1, 2009 · Posted in Media Criticism 
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Mike Elgan makes a funny. The Six Stages of Media Twitter Coverage Hell.

He misses a stage:

7. Twitterati make fun of coverage to gain traffic.

To quote Mr. Elgan:

The so-called backlash is just the media’s knee-jerk pseudo-contrarianism, right on schedule. Obviously Twitter has been clearly overexposed and overhyped in the media, and now reporters and commentators are both slamming their own hype, and, inevitably, attacking Twitter itself.

My advice: Don’t take any of it too seriously. The media does this with every truly major Internet phenomenon that comes along. It happened with the Internet itself, then e-mail, then the Web, then the tech bubble, then social networking and now Twitter.

heh.

Honestly, I don’t care who’s covering Twitter. It’s the same as Facebook, MySpace, blogging, IM, etc. Play the same record so many times and it gets old. Just enjoy the ride, because it’ll come around again.

Do what you want. Use it. Don’t use it. Talk about it, write the lifestyles feature. Whatever. I’ll keep plugging away.

Am I getting too cynical in my old age?

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  • robbie bracken
    who cares about twitter, not my 18 and 19 year old facebook dependent daughters, not my 40-55 year old physician colleagues or any of my staff, not my 30-65 year old professional and non professional neighbors, not all the many stay at home moms i know, and not a single one of my patients ages 20-95....
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