Entertainment - by Dene Chen on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:22 - 4 Comments - 29 views
By now, everybody loves Twitter—or since the backlash is now officially on, loves to hate it—but what do you if you have just recently caught on, and you are struggling to figure out who to follow? New York magazine has a handy-dandy Twitter Approval Matrix so that you can figure out who has the coolest 140-character brain farts, and whose tweets are probably being updated by their publicists (pssst: Martha Stewart.) Here are a few things that caught my attention:
- Our very own Jay Rosen is the highest on the Insightful/News-sharing quadrant.
- Soleil Moon Frye made it? I haven’t seen anything with her in it since Sabrina The Teenage Witch.
- Sean Combs/Puff Daddy/P. Diddy/Diddle-Poo tweets about tantric sex. Is it necessary to say something is irrelevant if we already know it’s irrelevant?
True story: This past Monday, my journalism ethics class invited Craig Whitney, Standards Editor at the New York Times, to have an informal Q&A session about ethical and legal issues that the Times faces. During this hour-long session (which was really insightful and awesome and made me wish I worked in journalism 40 years ago when it was easier to get a journalism job), Whitney mentioned Twitter and how the immediacy of it may affect the newsroom. Every time he said “Twitter” and “tweet,” everyone in the room giggled a little. It’s funny when old people use those words seriously.
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Phillip Klugman
Real Life Twitter
Sophia Tarabicos
Fucking LOVE College Humor……. Love twitter too….
alice hanratty
“our” very own jay rosen? does he work for nyu local, too?











Twitter Matrix told me to follow David Carr. I’m happy I did. He is awesome.