This article quickly summarized the main points of how Twitter is impacting the media's cycle and news being relayed to the public. Dawson mentioned how news used to get around--radio and TV channels, then newspapers, and further on to chat shows. Now, information is passed much more quickly, via Twitter, in particular. Twitter is often the first media to break news and it provides a discussion forum for mainstream media coverage. Dawson shows graphs he found from Samuel Degremont in Paris about the change Twitter has brought about.
I think it is interesting how huge of a difference Twitter is making in our media's cycle. I thought that it was simply another thing like Facebook and didn't really know how much it was used by the public to actually get out news that matters. The graphs really show a huge difference in the short amount of time that it takes Twitter to spread the word on things instead of waiting 8+ hours for the news to cover it. The quickness cannot be argued with. Whether Twitter is really doing that much good is another question.
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