Re:Jack Dorsey Is Losing Control of Twitter
by joemi on Thursday October 06, 2016 @08:02PM
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I'm not sure if I'm understanding you correctly, but I think you're considering Twitter to be a media company, like a newspaper company? If so, I don't think that comparison is accurate so there'd be no conflict of interest really.
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Re:Jack Dorsey Is Losing Control of Twitter
by briandear on Thursday October 06, 2016 @08:40PM
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The conflict of interest is if the journalists owned shares of Twitter.
Re:Jack Dorsey Is Losing Control of Twitter
by westurner on Friday October 07, 2016 @06:55PM
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The conflict of interest is that one media company is publishing negative articles about another media company amidst acquisition talks.
What is their interest here? How do they intend to affect the perceived value of Twitter? Are there sources cited? Data? Figures?
Re:Jack Dorsey Is Losing Control of Twitter
by joemi on Friday October 07, 2016 @07:24PM
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I'm still a bit confused. Are you implying that Bloomberg and Twitter are in competition? I'm not so sure they are, really, in any sense.
Re:Jack Dorsey Is Losing Control of Twitter
by westurner on Saturday October 15, 2016 @07:08PM
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Bloomberg is a private corporation which sells ads and exercises editorial discretion in publishing market-moving information and/or editorials.
Twitter is a public corporation which hosts Tweets, sells ads, and selects trending Twitter Moments.
Both companies are media services. Both companies compete for ad revenue. Both companies compete for readers' time.
(Medium allows journalists to publish information and/or editorials for free (or, now, for subscription revenue from membership programs)).