But, how would they make money otherwise?! /s

I think fucking social butterfly Arianna Huffington [1]'s website Huffington Post is the one that started the trend of headlines like "X {destroys,obliterates} Y" to report on 140 Twitter outbursts. Thanks, lady, for your contribution in destroying the media landscape.

https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/1994/11/ariannas-virt...