Tag: the sunday times

The Sunday Times is Pre-Revenue, Let’s Twitter That

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I think Kevin Marks nails the reply to The Sunday Times Twitter article rather nicely: Launched in 1821, The Sunday Times is the inescapable, old tech product. It boasts 1.2m readers — teeny compared to the BBC World Services’s 183m — but its audience has slumped in the past year. Right now, the Australia-based company that owns The Sunday Times is valued at $29billion, even though, in start-up argot, it is “pre-revenue”. Despite the big losses and the ennui swirling around his product, Murdoch (who also coined the term “Digger”) has admitted many are bewildered when they first encounter The

Twitter Is Like The Womb, says The Sunday Times

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Andy Pemberton of The Sunday Times has posted a… courageous article about Twitter. There are articles where you can tell that a writer has started from a neutral position and investigated something new. Pemberton is not one of those. His “A Load of Twitter” starts poorly, with a strap-line that says “Feel the need to tell everyone everything you’re doing all of the time? Then tweeting is for you” and goes downhill from there. Let me lift out some quotes, because I’m not sure where to start… And just who are the “followers” willing to tune into this rolling news