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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by Tempest1981 on Sunday October 09, 2016 @01:47PM (#12672308)
The media is clearly benefiting, with many stories backed by a Donald Trump tweet. But if the tweets weren't free to begin with, they might not be as newsworthy.
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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by JumpCrisscross on Sunday October 09, 2016 @02:26PM (#12672539)
> the media is clearly benefiting

Journalists certainly are. Getting quotes was hard work. Now it consists of trawling Twitter. Not sure if this has been a boon or bane for journalism, however.

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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by Godel_unicode on Sunday October 09, 2016 @09:13PM (#12674481)
> Journalists certainly are

In the short term, anyway. The substitution of Twitter-trawling for actual journalism and research is doing immense damage in the long run.

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