Comments on: Has Twitter become an angry bird? https://archive.richardlittledale.co.uk/2011/05/24/has-twitter-become-an-angry-bird/ Reflections on preaching, communication and story Tue, 09 Aug 2011 08:05:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 By: Misinterpretation is trending « Richard Littledale's Preacher's A – Z https://archive.richardlittledale.co.uk/2011/05/24/has-twitter-become-an-angry-bird/#comment-723 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 08:05:27 +0000 http://richardlittledale.wordpress.com/?p=2554#comment-723 […] was not a story about social media, but about political upheaval.  The legal arguments about super-injunctions in the UK in May was not a story about Twitter, but about liberty and privacy. Similarly, last […]

]]> By: Why shoot the bird? « The Bankside Babble https://archive.richardlittledale.co.uk/2011/05/24/has-twitter-become-an-angry-bird/#comment-722 Wed, 25 May 2011 08:50:22 +0000 http://richardlittledale.wordpress.com/?p=2554#comment-722 […] I don’t think Twitter, or any other social media tool for that matter, is a ‘threat’ per se. No, the problems are more related to humans and we actually use the technology. As Richard Littledale rightly said in his Preacher’s A – Z blog… …shouldn’t we remember that the heart of this story is not actually about Twitter or newspapers, but about privacy and gagging? The fact that we have found out about draconian gagging orders through Twitter should make us question the orders themselves rather than the means through which we heard about them, surely? (Read more) […]

]]> By: preachersa2z https://archive.richardlittledale.co.uk/2011/05/24/has-twitter-become-an-angry-bird/#comment-721 Tue, 24 May 2011 11:43:42 +0000 http://richardlittledale.wordpress.com/?p=2554#comment-721 I think you are absolutely right. It has simply allowed us to do more quickly and with less effort those things which we tend to do anyway. So why is it the story? Mind you, if Twitter really did try to link with angry birds …THAT would be a story!

]]> By: Martin https://archive.richardlittledale.co.uk/2011/05/24/has-twitter-become-an-angry-bird/#comment-720 Tue, 24 May 2011 11:35:06 +0000 http://richardlittledale.wordpress.com/?p=2554#comment-720 I was wondering if this was going to be about launching small birds with a slingshot at small green pigs but see it is about the story that every one seems to be talking about. That is both through the medium of Twitter and also using the old fashioned medium of face to face conversation.

I’ve found out as much about the super injunctions or should I say #superinjunctions through talking to people as I have through twitter. The two forms of communication share many similarities but one is very new and shiny.

There are differences of course in that I am not restricted to using 140 character sentences when I talk to a work colleague or friend. Also if I overhear a conversation I can very easily mis-interpret what is beign said. If I “overhear” a Twitter this is less likely.

Having said that Twitter does have a very fast dispersal rate for new information. Traditionally gossip in an office may take a while to spread, gossip in a town longer and so on. Gossip or information on twitter far less as shown by the fact that Bin Laden was a fan of the IT crowd. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13467407

So after twittering on (#hangsheadinshame) a bit much; in the case of the super injunctions hasn’t twitter just expediated what would have happened any way?

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