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Re:Apple TV Was Making a Show About Gawker. Then Tim Cook Fo... by madeofpalk on Monday December 14, 2020 @06:01AM (#25415659)
> Twitter

I find it really funny when Twitter is lumped in with the rest of these countries. It is almost like an order or magnitude smaller than all the others, and makes considerably less money.

Twitter is a small niche social network with people who control the news, which vastly overstates it's size.

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Re:Apple TV Was Making a Show About Gawker. Then Tim Cook Fo... by DavidSJ on Monday December 14, 2020 @06:03AM (#25415676)
I thought about that point when constructing that list, but despite Twitter's small size as a business, it has outsized power in the media environment.

For complementary reasons, I excluded Microsoft, despite its large size.

I'm sure one could debate the exact composition of that list, but it's not too important to the larger point.

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Re:Apple TV Was Making a Show About Gawker. Then Tim Cook Fo... by DrAwdeOccarim on Monday December 14, 2020 @06:21AM (#25415780)
Interesting take, but Twitter is where all biotech news breaks and discussions with KOLs occur.
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Re:Apple TV Was Making a Show About Gawker. Then Tim Cook Fo... by dharma1 on Monday December 21, 2020 @04:15PM (#25499649)
Which biotech Twitter accounts are worth following?
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Re:Apple TV Was Making a Show About Gawker. Then Tim Cook Fo... by polytely on Monday December 14, 2020 @08:11AM (#25417063)
Twitter has a lot of journalists on it which in turn influences the news. Twitter can be used to influence how the people that make the news view reality
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Re:Apple TV Was Making a Show About Gawker. Then Tim Cook Fo... by cobbzilla on Monday December 14, 2020 @08:11AM (#25417057)
Perhaps it's more about power and influence than money.

Twitter has political power, therefore it gets included.

How big is the newspaper industry relative to its influence?

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