Real Time News (& Opinion) Distribution – Twitter beats Google

Jul 29, 2008

Real Time News (& Opinion) Distribution – Twitter beats Google

It hard to qualify initial Twitter Tweets related to serious topics as 'news'. Like for example this very first tweet announcing SoCal earthquake was made by Nicholas Hawkins. (Though there is bit of confusion on who actually broke the news).

holy shit earthquake in so cal

Now if you were reading this from public timeline on Twitter, you can potentially come up with two reactions. Laugh it off by saying this guy's apartment got hit by truck or take it seriously by thinking may be he is genuine and it's a first indicator of something serious.

Either case we don't have a quick way of verifying unless lot of people quickly retweet or validate via different sources. In the world of sub-minute information distribution, peer level validation is critical for random bits to be taken as news.

I think this sub-minute game is what makes Twitter interesting. And puts Google (and Reuters) in the legacy category (as far distribution velocity of news is concerned).

Rush to hit on SEND button is not unique to micro-blogging or for that matter blogging. We are witnessing video-game like rumor/excitement characteristic between introductory breaking news tweet (or blog post) and eventual validation tweet (or blog post). What happens between these two phases is pretty much a citizen journalism equivalent of a roller coaster ride.

Time dimension is becoming increasingly important. We are in the sub-minute domain. Check out these two screens which compares how Twitter and Google covered LA earthquake news –

This is from Google News. I took both images with couple of seconds difference.

This using Twitter search (Summize)

Twitter has more chatter and gets better CPC (without the C off course). But you get the idea.

VentureBeat's blog post is 'first' on Techmeme. Not sure all this matters in the long run but just observing how news (and views) spread in early stage is fascinating.

News is followed by page view grab, and page view grab is followed by smart ad placements. That's where I think companies like MediaMath will play interesting role.

In any case Twitter beats Google on the sub-minute game.

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Category: Emerging Technologies

Tagged: earthquake, google, news, spread, time, Twitter, venturebeat

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craden 08/14/2009 08:40 AM 1 point
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Twitter had been a very useful online marketing tool, especially
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Oh ya ! i totally agree , twitter is a good tool, thanks for this information..

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Thanks for posting this one. It's so amazing that twitter have beaten up google.

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This is very interested. I don't see how any current website or app could beat twitter at updating realtime.

Twitter's user base will post info almost instantly.

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Google is going to rank a news stories at the very tops of their results whenever a major event occurs. I think Google could actually beat twitter most of the time.

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Twitter is going stronger and stronger. I wonder what the experts make of it as a marketing tool?

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Jerry Okorie 05/07/2009 08:58 AM 1 point
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I love twitter, what other tool gives you real time information from over 1000 countries in a sec..None..TWITTER does..

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Home Remedy 04/08/2009 11:02 AM 1 point
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Thats a great news to know.. Thanks for sharing..

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Twitter is good, I have been using it since they have launched and the fact that they are enhancing every now and then it was obvious for them to take on others in the arena.

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This is nice to know, competition between the biggies is always good as a consumer, as we would get more and more as and when there is more competition.. Twitter and Google on other hand are great in their ways.

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Wedding Favors 03/25/2009 12:28 AM 1 point
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I was reading this article the other day about Twitter and it mentions there has been a lot of social as well as professional activities on google, one example was a corporate chosing Twitter for customer service as it realised a lot of its customers were active on twitter..

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Thanks for a great post, it is surprising to see Twitter calling on Google.. Never knew Twitter has move on so much ahead.. It is good to see the web growing...

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