Twitter as newspaper? The world has gone mad

by gabriela on 9/09/2010

Twitter = (kind of like Planetaki) one single stream of information organized in chronological order.  (WIN)

Online newspapers = columns, too much information clustered into categories, no apparent distinction between important and less important info, Ads. (FAIL)

Why would anyone think a mashup of these two would be a good idea? Giving up all the good stuff and taking on all the bad. Well, we have found out through bitelia that paper.li has done it. In a nutshell: paper.li organizes links shared on Twitter into an easy to read newspaper-style format.

Sounds like a good idea? You bet! (if you like your twitter feed full of ads that is).

bitelia’s newspaper (hope they don’t mind us using their newspaper as an example).

There are 2 comments in this article:

  1. 9/09/2010http://twitter.com/sdepazos says:

    Curiously seems it’s the same case in Flipboard for iPad, use your Facebook feed and Twitter feed, and soon the Google Reader feed.
    But in this case the device have a different interaction and it’s not a replication of the newspaper structure , does not scroll a huge page and becomes almost more noise than information, also i add that there is no clear visual separation between articles, only a single line bottom.

    These cases (paper.li and the common online newspapers) are the latest betting oposite to satisfy the reader looking for examples such as Reader in Safari (ported to other browsers) or the well known typical feed readers.

    [Spanish ON:]

    Conclusión: no se quiere ruido!

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  2. 12/09/2010Gabriela says:

    Totally agree Mr. depazos. We’re big fans of Flipborad ourselves.

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