It seems Twitter has overtaken Digg for the first time. Apparently it's useage has risen almost 1000% in the last year, a major part of it's success is attributed to the speed which information spreads over the Twitter network e.g. images taken on a Mobile phone then posted immediately on Twitter are reaching vast audiences far faster than traditional photo-journalism can compete with.
The Twitter site has jumped from 2,953rd most popular in the UK in 2008 to 291st as of mid-January.Twitter has gained extra publicity through Barak Obama's savvy use of Web 2.0 to spread information and opinion quickly and economically and it became the tool for comment on the inauguration itself... no need to wait for the speech to finish and the pundits and experts to pronounce anymore!"A big driver of traffic to Twitter last week was around the US Airways plane crash in to the Hudson River last Thursday, driving many posts and updates about the situation," said Hitwise research director Heather Dougherty.
The first picture of the crash was posted to TwitPic, and was picked up by more traditional media outlets - sparking the widely-quoted notion that Twitter is the poster child for a new era of citizen journalism.
And of course you can follow the new White House Team on Twitter as well as grab all sorts of feeds from the brand spanking new White House Web site... should you want to.
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