Twitter

My experience with Twitter is mixed. When I first made the account, I was so confused! I'm a frequent "Facebook-er" and I was expecting them to be somewhat the same, but Twitter is so different. I have to have my Facebook page look organized on my wall, so Twitter seems so unorganized with how things are posted and re-tweeted.  After some time I did get used to searching around, using hash-tags, using the @ sign, and uploading pictures. I found out that I have an obsession with following celebrities, news sites, and sports teams; via my Twitter account. This brings up an important issue, journalism's future.
With so many news sites, radio stations, and other corporations giving live updates of real-life news going on; it makes it so easy to just log in to Twitter and get everything you need right there, without having to watch the news, or read a newspaper. More often than not, Twitter gets live up to date events going on, whereas if you are a newspaper buyer, you have to wait until the next day to get the news; or if you watch the news, you have to wait until the news plays and wait for the particular story to play for 30 seconds. Twitter makes it possible to get live updates, all of the time.
This is an absolutely huge tool for journalists, depending n how they look at it. A journalist can look at it from the point as, Twitter is taking their news from them and giving it out for free. Or they could look at it as the opportunity to get endless research and use Twitter as a useful tool to see step by step of what is going on somewhere, for their news stories.
Twitter can be looked at either negatively or positively for journalists, but overall I see it as twitter taking over what journalists work so hard for, and doing it SO easily in 140 characters.