Twitter as News Source
The cluster debates Twitter's role and reliability as a primary news source, highlighting how journalists and mainstream media heavily rely on it for real-time information, stories, and public opinion despite criticisms of misinformation and addiction.
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With mainstream news being so propagandist, only way to keep up with actual news is Twitter: people bypassing curators and directly & efficiently stating what happens.
What are you talking about? News media LOVE twitter/X, it is where they get all their stories from and journalists are notoriously addicted to it, to their detriment.
Twitter isn't a news paper. You shouldn't be getting your news from randos on Twitter.
does this mean there will be less "news" about whatever some reporter saw in his twitter feed?
nowadays people just link to twitter posts as some sort of reliable first hand source
Take this as you will but you may(or may not) be aware that twitter is nowadays regarded as a news source by mainstream media journalists
True. People flocked to Twitter to hear general opinion, which the press didn't provide. That is changing.They have also been controlling the trending #hashtags; trying to channel only certain type of discussion.
Twitter is the medium about what's happening RIGHT NOW. In before you would open the TV or the radio to get information about what's happening right now but these days many people would look at Titter to get information about "RIGHT NOW". It could be mundane things about the lives of other people or it could be an event that's affecting large number of people. If something is happening, there would be reports of observations and there would be statements from people in p
It doesn't help much if I avoid Twitter, when all the major news media outlets think that Twitterers are the vox populi, and use it to source their articles.
Political journalism does it with Twitter, so...