Twitter and The Time of Right Now

If you thought that the internet was fast before, hop online and give the twitter search a whirl. If you take a look at the trending topics, you’ll notice some interesting news subjects, but nothing you’ll see in the news.

For at least a few minutes.

The internet has gone from fast to impossibly fast in less then a few months. With more people getting on twitter, every major news story can and will be reported via twitter before any major news story can break. This has been useful to report earthquakes, political scandals and whatever becomes extremely important.

But with speed comes another factor, critical volume and stories getting lost. We are able to see more and more online then ever before, but because there’s so much information, we are forced to discard information for the biggest, most important stories of the time.

I’ve heard some talk about how twitter may replace news media, but who else will catch the lesser known stories?

Twitter has it’s capabilities, but is completely in the present, with neither foresight or hindsight.

Brian