[chippy]

I'm sort of unsure of this generally. It's certainly changed.

My examples are:

The gossip and snark of say Startup L Jackson vs the gossip and snark of a valleywag post.

IRC backchannels during conferences versus a Tweet Wall.

[minimaxir]

Those aren't good counterarguments in favor of Twitter.

Valleywag is dead because of reasons unrelated to the death of media (and I genuinely miss it). IRC backchannels are dead because IRC is dead.

[airencracken]

Oh man. I'll have to tell Freenode that IRC is dead so they can shut down all of their servers.

[coldpie]

> IRC is dead

I assure you, it is not.