Barbarian fighting the good fight on Twitter
It's not hard to find bad news about the media industry, whether it's the plummeting ad revenues for newspapers, the layoffs at magazines or the full-blown ad recession. It can be a real bummer. But what bleeds leads, as they say. A self-described bunch of "concerned PR professionals" have set up a Twitter account called TheMediaIsDying to chronicle media-industry layoffs so that fellow flacks know who to take off their spam—I mean contact—lists. It has attracted more than 10,000 followers. The Barbarian Group's Rick Webb, a firm believer in awesomeness of the Internet, has had enough and, with colleague Noah Brier, begun a rival feed: MediaIsThriving. The feed aggregates evidence of media doing quite well, thank you very much, such as the growth in cable-TV jobs, French movies doing nicely and the Financial Times growing readership after hiking subscription rates. UPDATE: Add another optimistic media-focused Twitter feed to the mix: TheMediaIsHirin. —Posted by Brian Morrissey |
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January 29, 2009 in Barbarian Group, Morrissey, Social networks, Twitter | Permalink |
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I applaud the Barbarian's for fighting against the dark evil of PR. I have never met one from their ugly dark side that I liked, trusted or believed. Triumph to all, but the lies of P.R. people everywhere!
Posted by: Alaric | Jan 29, 2009 11:37:04 PM
This propaganda fib will go nowhere unlike media, which is going down there.
Posted by: Unconcerned Citizen | Jan 31, 2009 3:20:56 PM
Yes twitter is new fighting place for marketer and this new social activities altering the whole image of internet
Posted by: Craigslist Sacramento | Aug 14, 2009 7:44:45 AM
