Dear Twitter critics:

I understand how you feel. Really, I do – because I once was among you. I didn’t understand why anyone would be interested in following the day-to-day humdrums of a life. Why would you want to know what brand of cereal I had for breakfast, or what book I’m reading, or when I go to the grocery store? It’s all so boring that a person’s desire to know about it can seem dangerously voyeuristic. A Twitter user who shares the intimate details of his or her life, meanwhile, can appear arrogant and self-absorbed.

You may have started a Twitter account in the beginning just to see what all the fuss was about, only to let it sit there unused when you didn’t find content that captured your interest (or didn’t offend your sense of decency). That’s why my Twitter page was dormant for a few months.

Daily newspaper readers throughout northern California were greeted this morning by a story from the Associated Press speculating that the Bay Bridge would be open for the morning commute. The story, which quoted a California transportation department spokesman as saying the bridge could re-open, was last updated on the wire at 11:40 p.m.

It was welcome news for many in the area, as the bridge’s unexpected closure forced some commuters to wait in traffic for hours on their way to work. The online version of the story has been re-Tweeted several times this morning.

But the story wasn’t true, and the AP should’ve known it.

Labatts and Molson are popular brands of beer in Canada.

So it’s natural to assume they’ll be popular in South Carolina.

Right?

That’s the type of argument made in a recent Canadian Journalism Project article by Kelly Toughill, an associate professor at the University of King’s College, Halifax. Toughill cites a speech by Canadian media analyst Ken Goldstein as offering potential proof that English-language newspaper circulation might eventually level off in Canada.

The problems with newspapers aren’t just about journalism.