Yesterday evening I received the following Tweet as a direct message. Normally I wouldn’t publish direct messages but I have permission from @Joerup to publish this one as I believe it highlights something quite astonishing about just how much a part of daily life social media has become.
The design of the #MandarinMonday website is centred around having an archive of all tweets tagged with the hashtag #MandarinMonday. Rather than write a stand-alone script to search Twitter and archive these tweets, I decided to package it all up as a self contained Wordpress plugin. I am now sharing this plugin (my first ever [...]
This week saw the birth of #MandarinMonday on Twitter. There are no rules to #MandarinMonday as the idea behind it was to encourage people learning Chinese to use their Mandarin. Just turn up, tweet in Mandarin and use the #MandarinMonday hashtag.
After much thought, I can see that Twitter has a lot to offer the world of journalism. But let us hope it doesn’t come at the expense of careful, well written, analysis of current affairs. They are both complementary, and one without the other would leave the world of journalism severely lacking.
