Stetoscope

I have often written about the hints, the signs that reaveals that something has change somewhere. Especially about when a social media can be considered as a success. Today, once again, I am amazed by the ability of twitter’s team to understand how they are a media and how they demonstrate their will to be THE media of the future.

I think, being a real media is not only bringing the freshest information or the brightest analysis or the most astonishing photo… Which twitter is still good at. It also consists in being conscious of one’s own subjectivity and so to choose something to fight for. That what’s journalists once did, before they send their soul (and profession) to capitalism.

And yesterday twitter decided to reschedules their maintenance to allow iranian protests to continue. I do not think that any giant website has ever taken the side of a revolution like they did yesterday. I do remember that yahoo and google accepted the Chinese restriction on their services to save their market shares… Wikipedia is well sheltered behind its consensus stand, and youtube and friends just stay in the laws steps.

I think yesterday, twitter won its medal for being on the higher step of the mediatic scale.