Struggling to think of good use-cases for the second type. Maybe there's need for some meta-analysis or documentation of trends around a story, or protection against twitter censorship itself. Best example I can think of is ironically NYP itself when twitter was censoring the Biden laptop story. Obviously they needed to use their own platform to get the story out then. Ideally the evidence wouldn't be censored and traditional news outlets shouldn't have a good reason to exist when anyone can report news. Any random blog could put the info out.
IMO it's weird that people still hold a level of respect for traditional journalism. For some reason a "This Guy Claims Gemini Told Him Hitler Did Nothing Wrong!" article carries more weight than his tweets themselves. NYP could have just retweeted him..
You can distinguish between two sorts of articles based on tweets.
One is solely about "people saying" stuff.
The other is someone using Twitter to post evidence of something.
I think the first one is dumb, but the second one is not.
Struggling to think of good use-cases for the second type. Maybe there's need for some meta-analysis or documentation of trends around a story, or protection against twitter censorship itself. Best example I can think of is ironically NYP itself when twitter was censoring the Biden laptop story. Obviously they needed to use their own platform to get the story out then. Ideally the evidence wouldn't be censored and traditional news outlets shouldn't have a good reason to exist when anyone can report news. Any random blog could put the info out.
IMO it's weird that people still hold a level of respect for traditional journalism. For some reason a "This Guy Claims Gemini Told Him Hitler Did Nothing Wrong!" article carries more weight than his tweets themselves. NYP could have just retweeted him..