Evan Williams, founder and CEO of Twitter, kicked off the Online News Association conference in San Francisco. The format was a fireside chat, except before an audience of hundreds of journalists, academics and developers. He starts by talking about how Twitter has taken off across the world, with major growth for Twitter in the UK, Brazil and Canada.  It is also big in Japan, so Japanese is the only other

BBC Newsnight grilled Twitter co-founder and chief executive Evan Williams with questions that more often than not have a negative tone to them. Twitter was accused of creating a false sense of community, being just a service for celebrities, dehumanising its users and possibly being just a fad. The questions reveal a deep bias and misunderstanding against this new form of media from established media such as Newsnight, even though