Twitter Added to AP Style Book, Was Willing to Settle For Second Best
At the risk of sounding incredibly hypocritical, I've never quite understood the purpose of Twitter. I mean, I can understand the value of being able to post something from your phone (I've done it quite a few times myself), but I don't know how I feel about a service completely devoted to that end.
There are others won't don't share my skepticism though, like the Associated Press, which just issued a new edition of their guidebook that includes an entry about Twitter. Other entries include Libor, recession-proof, knuckleball and baba ghanoush.
However, the reason I'm posting about this isn't simply the fact that the AP is officially legitimizing "tweeting" as a verb. I'm posting about this because no more then two months ago, the AP was getting pissy at the blogosphere for daring to to repost their stories. And they weren't just mad at people stealing their stories wholesale, they were just as mad about people who would only quote a portion of their stories and attribute them properly.
Perhaps the AP took a moment to pull its head out its ass gain some perspective and reconsider the value of social blogging. Then again, it could simply be them realizing that people talk enough about Twitter anyway, so they might as well throw in their two bits on the subject.
via Media Bistro