What a few weeks this has been. Twitter has become my primary news source.

I have been able to get way ahead of the curve as Hanna and Ike developed. A huge number of news and personal feeds aggregated into a very complete view of what was happening. Many news organizations are now twittering as are of course us as individuals. The combination is excellent.

As the financial crisis took hold - I have been days ahead of what is happening. It was almost like being in the room with Hank Paulson this weekend. Now there are tweets from staff too.

I would say with breaking news a Twitter perspective is at least a day ahead and is much more complete.

The Conventions were very well covered. All the key media outlets joined the Twittersphere - some better than others. The best ones did more than retweet items - they provided color on the Tweets. There is a richness, immediacy and personality in the political coverage that is missing in conventional converage

So if you wish to experience this - try Tweetdeck that allows you to set up specific groups to follow. I have Fannie Mae group, an Ike Group, A Lehman group. I did have conference groups. You can follow any topic really.

Twitter has become my first port of call for news.

Most news organizations are going there too - Now Citizen Journalism is I think being defined. For instance Huffington Post has a bunch of “Stringers” such as Dave Winer and Jay Rosen tweeting. The News Hour has its own Tweet.

More immediacy is being delivered - here is the NYT blogging in real time about the day on Wall Street today Sept 15 2008

It’s like being there - so different from a headline