Comments on: Beware the Social Media Testimonial http://whengrowthstalls.com/blog/2009/12/beware-social-media-testimonial.html In "When Growth Stalls" Steve McKee exposes the characteristics that commonly correlate with stalled growth, and how to combat them. Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:35:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Peter http://whengrowthstalls.com/blog/2009/12/beware-social-media-testimonial.html/comment-page-1#comment-12 Peter Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:24:56 +0000 http://whengrowthstalls.com/blog/2009/12/beware-the-social-media-testimonial.html#comment-12 Just had a very similar thought reading this article on CNN.com. Reporters are getting lazy, and getting "quotes" by typing into a search box in Twitter is a lot easier than finding live humans to talk to. I'm all for using Twitter as part of the "customer reaction"- but certainly not for all of it. Lazy journalism is getting worse.<br /><br />http://money.cnn.com/2009/12/24/news/companies/fox_time_warner_cable/index.htm Just had a very similar thought reading this article on CNN.com. Reporters are getting lazy, and getting "quotes" by typing into a search box in Twitter is a lot easier than finding live humans to talk to. I'm all for using Twitter as part of the "customer reaction"- but certainly not for all of it. Lazy journalism is getting worse.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/12/24/news/companies/fox_time_warner_cable/index.htm

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