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   CM30 (cm30@ohai.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 21:30:08 JST CM30

   Yesterday I saw a post on #Threads from a journalist wondering how to do their job without #Twitter. Even to the point they wondered how work was possible without trending topics to look at.

   And that’s kinda alarming to be honest. The media has become so dependent on Twitter to find news that they genuinely struggle to find sources and do their job without it.

   #journalism #media

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     CM30 (cm30@ohai.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 21:30:14 JST CM30

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     This gets even scarier when you realise that Twitter has between half and a quarter of each country’s population at the most, and only a tiny percent of those use it regularly or post about trending topics.

     So much of the time stories that affect like 1% of the population are turned into major events, and small amounts of people arguing are treated like there’s a major debate going on.