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published Published on Jul 18, 2022   modified Modified on Jul 18, 2022

-The Telegraph

Twitter is making journalism lazy

Some sixteen years after the micro-blogging site was created,Twitter occupies more mind space on an hourly basis than its social media rivals. It is currently most used for news breaks in times of conflict,revolution or negotiation and for direct communication by politicians and governments.

The rest of the time it offers opinion-mongering by journalists and the public at large and becomes a platform for journalists and bloggers to promote their work. The latter is because when technology enables everybody to create content,there is simply too much out there looking for an audience. It is no longer enough to write or create video journalism; you need to be found in cyberspace where there is so much being disgorged every second.But more of that later.

Twitter also occupies mind space because the company itself is more of a daily news maker than other platforms. Recently, this was because of the day-by-day unfolding of the acquisition-by-Elon-Musk saga,which ended abruptly, and because of its ongoing tussles with governments.It has now taken the Indian government to the Karnataka High Court, challenging 39 urls out of 1,474 accounts and 175 tweets that the government has asked it to take action against. The overarching threat is of losing its intermediary status if it does not comply with the take down requests. That would make Twitter responsible for the user-generated content on it.

While the high point of the political use of Twitter remains Donald Trump using it to stage an insurrection on Capitol Hill in the United States of America, it is credited with having helped create the Arab Spring revolution and enabling mass protests both here and in Sri Lanka to take off. The Government of India, meanwhile, has effectively replaced the Press Information Bureau with Twitter. Ministers,offices, departments are constantly tweeting. Policy pronouncements come via Twitter, not from press conferences or briefings. The minister tweets, the official explains if asked. The Government of India took some six years to begin using Twitter; the Prime Minister’s Office began tweeting in 2012 as did other arms of the government. But now the National Democratic Alliance government lives on it. As do politicians of all hues. The more provocative or inventive the tweet, the more followers you garner. It’s called engagement,and it is the lifeblood of Twitter, which thrives on noise.

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The Telegraph, 18 July, 2022, https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/couch-scribes/cid/1875187?fbclid=IwAR0kJSuqPg_Xvdu9TlHMSuvSO2liIQGCeJN_Zumb1X4RjrngWqrnjEr-6Z4


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