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Am I the only one who thinks "Tweets his Resignation" is sensationalist, link bait bs?

On Jan 27 he tweeted a link to "likely my last blog at Sun" - http://twitter.com/OpenJonathan/status/8312583611

And that blog made it clear that with the Sun / Oracle transaction having closed he was on his way. Even that's hardly news - you can't really have two CEOs, so someone was always losing that title, and Sun was the one taken over.




I agree @ title. Sadly it's just how the media works.

"Twitter bullying! New phenomenon! Be afraid."

"Guy dumps his wife on twitter!"

"Man finds his long lost son via a tweet"

"How a startup was born out of a single tweet"

"How terrorists are now using twitter to coordinate attacks"

I think the problem is that some people view twitter/internet/latest big thing to be mysterious/worrying/game changing. It rarely is. Also of course some people just see <hyped keyword> and assume it's amazing new news unprecedented.




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