Is Twitter The CNN Of The New Media Generation?

1. TWITTER VS CNN [New media generation] Mantrova Iuliia mantrova.julia@gmail.com follow me @mantrova_julia “Is TWITTER The CNN Of The New Media Generation?” http://kolizeimedia.com/ Mantrova Iuliia, 2011

2. [TWITTER VS CNN] 1. Twitter Characteristics 2. Cases 3. Conclusions “Is TWITTER The CNN Of The New Media Generation?” http://kolizeimedia.com/ Mantrova Iuliia, 2011

3. What’s in common? Not mutual Not as Facebook ‘friends’. The same as subscribe to the newspaper news 2. Timeliness In many cases news come before the official statements. “Is TWITTER The CNN Of The New Media Generation?” http://kolizeimedia.com/ Mantrova Iuliia, 2011

4. What’s in common? 3. Tweeting is real- time 35 percent of retweets happen in the first 10 minutes 4. Everyone tweets news, especially the top users. Twitter is turning everyone into news reporters “Is TWITTER The CNN Of The New Media Generation?” http://kolizeimedia.com/ Mantrova Iuliia, 2011

5. What’s in common? 5. Headlines, headlines, headlines Mostly users post headlines with a little analysis thrown in 6. Those with many followers tweet more One person tweets breaking news and, potentially, one million see it because thousands retweet it. “Is TWITTER The CNN Of The New Media Generation?” http://kolizeimedia.com/ Mantrova Iuliia, 2011

6. What’s in common? 7. Tweets of eyewitness of the accident Tell info before any officials do. 8. Trustworthy The level of trust to a twitter-user higher than to the news source, which can be controlled by government. But on the other hand – examples of Egypt, Iran, Tunisia. “Is TWITTER The CNN Of The New Media Generation?” http://kolizeimedia.com/ Mantrova Iuliia, 2011

7. What is NOTin common? 1. No censoring. Higher level of trustworthy 2. Panic 3. Non-professional, subjective views “Is TWITTER The CNN Of The New Media Generation?” http://kolizeimedia.com/ Mantrova Iuliia, 2011

9. Case 1. Act of Terror In Domodedovo “Is TWITTER The CNN Of The New Media Generation?” http://kolizeimedia.com/ Mantrova Iuliia, 2011

11. Conclusions Twitter has all characteristics of contemporary media. II. Dependable on the source Twitter can be 1. sender of uncommitted breaking news; 2. an additional instrument of the propaganda. III. A lot of users writes pointless posts for urgent hashtags. “Is TWITTER The CNN Of The New Media Generation?” http://kolizeimedia.com/ Mantrova Iuliia, 2011

12. Conclusions IV. In future users with great amount of followers will become a honorable journalists. V. With popularization of on-line services, usage of Twitter will increase also. “Is TWITTER The CNN Of The New Media Generation?” http://kolizeimedia.com/ Mantrova Iuliia, 2011

13. Thank you for your time! Mantrova Iuliia mantrova.julia@gmail.com follow me @mantrova_julia “Is TWITTER The CNN Of The New Media Generation?” http://kolizeimedia.com/ Mantrova Iuliia, 2011