George Stephanopoulos has demonstrated that he can interview a top politician via Twitter, said Richard Huff in the New York Daily News. “Now he should step away from his Blackberry.” His “twitterview” with Sen. John McCain might have been a journalistic first, but the “gimmick” flopped. Instead of a meaningful dialogue, it was like “high school kids texting each other.”
The twitterview may not have been a high point for journalism or politics, said Larry Magid in CNET News, but it was a “watershed moment for Twitter.” The actual 140-character-at-a-time back-and-forth was at best an “interesting experiment,” but Stephanopoulos used Twitter to great effect to gather questions for McCain from regular citizens.
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