The anatomy of a #spill on twitter
Last night I was watching the ABC news and checking our twitter when I was some mention of an #alpspill. I searched for #spill, tweeted something inane and waited for the ABC to report something. It came in the 7.30 report and it amounted to guesswork by Kerry O’Brien about Julia Gillard being in Kevin Rudd’s office. Apart from the Twitter gossip there really wasn’t any news. Crikey was silent, The ABC was relatively silent, The SMage was relatively silent. Some “star tweeters” like @bernardkeane simply said “I can’t comment”. What there was on twitter though was a lot of …