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BizBuzzin
BizBuzzin
Followers,
friends, fans and the news in 2010
MONICA FEID on JANUARY 15, 2010
Okay, so high school English teachers probably aren’t
overjoyed with social media’s growing authority as a communication tool and the subsequent demise of grammatical correctness.
But don’t think it’s changing any time soon. When Twitter can grow some 1,382% year-over-year, that’s something to Tweet about. It’s hardcore proof that there is
a time, a place and, yes, a tool where this forced abbreviation makes sense. Even in cases where it doesn’t make sense
– and there are plenty -- you cannot argue with the fact that the audience exists. At the same time,
we are a society steep in the idea that our friends are experts, and we are too, on any number of subjects. By
September, Facebook was publishing 45 million status updates a day from 30 million unique visitors.
So, what does this mean
for the modern transfer of information? To begin with, all of this “socializing” in social
media is having a dramatic impact on the news industry as we know it. To emphasize the point, Twitter pocketed $25 million
from Google and Microsoft’s Bing to index content. In layman’s terms, the deal set “a precedent for content
providers like news publishers to seek their own deals with the search engines, which use snippets of content to link to stories.”
(http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/bloomberg_scoop_on_twitters_se.php) And that, my happy key-stroking friends, means that social media will play an even bigger role in how we communicate,
if not link, our followers, friends and fans the in-depth, grammatically correct, phonetically accurate and coherent big picture.
In other words, tweet, text, post and link to your heart’s content. You are the paperboys of cyberspace delivering news to your
inner circle – news that includes the type of stories that will make even high school English teachers proud.
Let us know what you think.
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