Why it's hard to love Twitter

Monday, October 26, 2009 | 12:01 a.m. CDT; updated 4:17 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Bigwig editor Evan Smith says he has a reputation for transforming “from a hater to a zealot.” Three examples of things that he went from dismissing to embracing? College football, crab cakes and Twitter. This, at any rate, is what he told a forum full of journalism students when visiting MU last week to talk about his “intentionally non-profit" news venture, the Texas Tribune.

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