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PodTech’s new CEO: Twitter breaks news

Posted on August 16th, 2007 by Mike Keliher

So I haven’t posted in a damn long time. I’m moving and I’m getting married in a couple of weeks. As the kids say on the MTV, this shit is bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S.

Anyway, here’s my two cents for the day: Twitter — or more accurately, the people I follow on Twitter — has done a great job of quickly getting the word out about news lately. Most recent example: PodTech hiring a new CEO, James McCormick. I learned about this via a Twitter message (“tweet” if you’re nasty) from Jeremiah Owyang, who works for PodTech.

It’s been at least 20 minutes since I saw that message, and it has been about three hours since the news release went out over BusinessWire. And still there’s no mention on Valleywag or TechCrunch — not that this is a bad thing, really, but I’d expect either of those blogs to be all over this news. In fact, the post on PodTech’s own blog is the only other trace of this news I can find in the blog world.

Hooray for Twitter people.