News is made on Twitter?

It still cuts out the middleman because anyone who wants to see what the Governor('s press secretary) wrote can do so directly. In essence, the media guy became an end user, just like the rest of us always are and were even for that specific exchange. It used Twitter as if it were an open-ended press conference that we were all invited to sit in and ask questions. I like it, because even though a real media guy asked the question it doesn't mean the rest of us have to wait for him to report it (or possibly even *not* report it because he/his boss/station executives decided not to run it because they didn't think it was newsworthy/attention getting/revenue generating).

For example, while the governor may have already made it very clear that he intends to run for re-election to you, R.D., or even the general public, I had not heard that yet...and now I have. If it's been covered before, maybe R.D. doesn't mention it tonight (or maybe I don't watch NECN tonight if he were to mention it). Now I know, because I follow the MassGovernor Twitter account and also because someone else saw it and felt it worth mentioning here (where I do read more often than I watch NECN). All because I didn't have to wait on the one media guy to make the answer known since he was just like one of us and the rest of us are paying attention to Twitter too.

Also, after looking at the exchange and reading some of R.D.'s other Tweets, I now follow R.D. too to see what he has to say occasionally. I don't usually watch NECN news but at least I'll get to see what R.D. is finding important enough to broadcast...yet another benefit from having had it out in the open. Anyone, not just media people, ask questions through Twitter to the Governor and if their question piques my interest, I might just follow them too, same as R.D.