If people go to Twitter for their acute information needs instead of newyorktimes.com, then they most definitely are competitors. What you're doing is containi

If people go to Twitter for their acute information needs instead of newyorktimes.com, then they most definitely are competitors. What you're doing is containing NYT in a niche category of "information for people who believe journalists product high quality information". In this niche, your point would stand true; someone who believes legacy journalism produces accurate and unbiased information is unlikely to even consider twitter. For the larger mass, its simply not true, and the above niche market is a constantly shrinking one.