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Twitter is the world's news paper now. I think, as world newspaper, it is worth it's value.
by grad_ml 9y ago
Twitter is the world's news paper now. I think, as world newspaper, it is worth it's value.
- wott 9y agoYes, if you mean to wrap world potatoes peelings.
- craftyguy 9y agoIt's not a 'news paper', it's a street corner in medieval Europe lined with 'prophets' all spewing shit in an attempt to attract followers.
- rhizome 9y agoYour comparison is inapt. One tweet in your timeline can not drown out other tweets.
- craftyguy 9y agoI never said that, nor do I think that was implied.
- rhizome 9y agoYou did. There is no concept of "volume" on Twitter in the way that a passerby in Medieval Wherever would miss some information over other.
- GotAnyMegadeth 9y agoThat's not entirely true. Twitter doesn't show you all tweets in chronological order, it has some kind of sorting algorithm like Facebook. If you follow enough people popular tweets and tweeters definitely drown out less popular ones
- visarga 9y ago> it's a street corner in medieval Europe One laaarge street corner.
- sosa2k 9y agoTwitter can be a very valuable resource if you follow the right people. No matter what industry you are interested in, there are leaders worth following on Twitter. One example for finance, Cliff Asness. He's a billionaire quant hedge fund guy, but he tweets every day. There's a ton of investors, businesspeople, reporters, programmers, researchers, etc. that are very active on Twitter, not to mention the plethora of comedy accounts that I find hilarious.
- tootie 9y agoIt's unfiltered avalanche of noise. It's a huge source news and fake news. Newspapers are still newspapers.