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drewprops
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
 
2022-11-15, 09:07

Twitter is great for breaking news. It has been my experience that it specializes in either train wreck situations or hyper deep dives into contentious minutiae of single topics.

I'm more of a generalist. Maybe I'm not following the right accounts?

I watch old-fashioned television for local news (there is a lot) and catch the nightly world news for what we now recognize as a "log" of daily events. I can jump on things I see there and track them down online from 12 different directions.

And of course my phone explodes just like yours when something big happens. News apps.

The internet offers so much to suit so many. It will be a real loss if he bungles Twitter.

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