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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 th
by joemi 10y ago
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.
- briandear 10y agoThe conflict of interest is if the journalists owned shares of Twitter.
- westurner 10y agoThe 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?
- joemi 10y agoI'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.
- westurner 10y agoBloomberg 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)).