Comments on: When Twitter Becomes A Liability

By: << mediadonis » The Twitterati & The Terrorists

<< mediadonis » The Twitterati & The Terrorists — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:55:28 +0000

[...] My buddy Ciaran blogged something pretty incredible today -> “When Twitter Becomes A Liability” [...]

By: Mark Hadfield

Mark Hadfield — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:21:46 +0000

Ciaran,

Mark mentions something along the same lines here:
http://herd.typepad.com/herd_the_hidden_truth_abo/2008/11/social-media-and-mumbai.html

It’s interesting that even in recent times social media and public journalism has evolved very quickly. For me a major turning point were the London bombings in 2005 when the BBC were asking for content not to enrich their journalism but indeed relying on it.

There’s also that great little skit from the brilliant Adam Curtis that he contributed to the equally brilliant Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe about the rise and fall of the TV journalist:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=O9FaIyc4vpU

Mark

By: jess (fushmush)

jess (fushmush) — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:13:28 +0000

Before the internet, the media was still a problem. During the hostage crisis at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games TV crews were filming the police operations. The terrorists were watching the coverage and so had a heads up on anything the police were planning.

By: dailytwitter

dailytwitter — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:13:19 +0000

mobiles are different in that operate on a one to one basis and are usually tracked and can be pinpointed to a few metres, twitter on the other hand is very simple and quick mechanism to provide a would be terrorist, political fanatic, gang or petty criminal with the means to communicate to a group instantly… http://blog.dailytwitter.com/ – i wrote a post on this recently – see what you think

far more effective and also anonymous too…

@dailytwitter