We’ve all done it: written that ill-conceived email / Facebook / Twitter post and hit SEND when we should have hit DELETE. That SEND button is a cruel master, in that once we send out an electronic message it’s gone, it’s “out there.”
Nir Rosen's Mea Culpa about Lara Logan - Salon.com
All ye who write for a living, learn well from Nir Rosen’s mea culpa about premature tweeting.
Link to original article on Salon.com:
How 480 characters unraveled my career – Egyptian Protests – Salon.com
The author writes that “Twitter is no place for nuance,” with only 140 characters per post. It’s a technology that is suited for relatively low-tech SMS phones. As the Age of Smartphones advances, I expect that Twitter will either disappear or evolve into something more like Facebook.
But for the foreseeable future, systems that allow people to make their points and networking connections with a few brief characters will prevail in situations where data bandwidth is tightly constricted.
– Robert
