Guardian is now uttering successive chirping sounds!

Yes! Guardian has decided to twitter their news! They believe that any news can be told in 140 characters (maximum limit for twitter messages). I already subscribe to Sciam and Onion and they do keep me quite busy I should say. But then they do not really convey the whole story in 140 characters but just the first part of the first line followed by … and tinyurl.

Reuters doesnt do that but provides the gist of the whole news story in the tweet (one twitter message) and then follows it up with an url. Afterall Reuters were the original news twitterers (if such a word exists) as they twittered much before twitter.com came into existence. Infact Reuters’ business model , in their early telegram age, centered around quick transmission of important tweets. Infact in places which werent covered by telegraph lines they even used birds (pigeons) to carry their tweets!.