Ah, so Twitter was just the social media playground for bored journalists, and not a place where actual news used to reached real people? Sure, because it’s not like Twitter ever broke major stories, fueled global discussions, or influenced any public opinion. And definitely not like journalists used it to interact directly with readers or make news...you know, accessible to people who don’t hang out on NPR’s homepage 24/7.
Besides, if journalists only lurked there out of habit, then millions of people must have been joining in just to watch them scroll, right? Or maybe Twitter was actually a pretty powerful platform for real-time news and engagement at one time —just a wild guess.
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