@change_for_iran

I've become a little obsessed with following the Iran elections on twitter. I have forgone all traditional news for it. I think that there is something in the immediacy that engages me, like when we used to get AP breaking news on the wire when I was in TV. A shred of news would come in a bullet and we would stay glued to AP Newscenter watching the story get confirmed and developed while working the phones for our own sourced news. It was a race to see who could confirm first, net vs net ... now there is no confirmation just first hand accounts. Twitter is not a source, per se, but rather color or lead generating... and it is damn addicitive.