June 18, 2012

News industry watches as Twitter moves toward the news system of the future



















Dave Winer writes:

[...] It would have been easier for the news industry to compete with Twitter if they had made this move themselves a. couple of years ago by starting a Twitter-like network, with the all the features Twitter is now introducing (which all were already in the publications' RSS feeds)

The product we all want is the realtime feed of Twitter, the river of news -- and the full text of the stories. A couple of years ago only the news industry could have provided that. Technically, that's still true, but in the intervening time, Twitter has gotten stronger, and more people expect to get their news on Twitter. Wait much longer and that will be an insurmountable advantage.

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