Fried Logic

Old-School vs. New-School: Twitter Newspaper

It’s hard to scroll through my Google Reader on any given day without seeing some sort of debate on the merits of new media outlets such as Twitter and blogs verses traditional print newspapers and magazines.

While I subscribe to the Raleigh News & Observer’s physical daily, I also use Twitter as a real-time news source. (So do a lot of other people: According to this report, half of Americans say they rely on the people around them to alert them to news, and 44 percent of online news users rely on emails, automatic updates or posts from social networking sites to get their news at least a few times a week.)

While my Twitter feed could be considered a curated, personalized version of the newspaper (albeit in a shorter, less fact-checked sort of way), there’s a new website that can actually turn your Twitter feed into a newspaper format:

I discovered paper.li via (where else?) Twitter and tested out its newspaper-like format that can be organized around any Twitter user, hashtag or list. In addition, you can view newspapers that others have created around different topics.

I especially like how it organizes Twitter photos in a scrollable window:

Merge old-school and new-school by creating your own Twitter newspaper at paper.li.