[ISL]

I think GP's comment about reach runs in the other direction:

If someone tweets about an issue, it is trivially discovered globally and readily embedded on news sites with arbitrary volumes of traffic (or shown on TV).

Is the same true for toots?

[LtWorf]

Bah I wish journalists would stop using twitter.

They often do not verify if whatever someone wrote in a tweet was made up, and seem to forget that most people are not on twitter, and if twitter agrees on something, that's a very small part of the population.

[rchaud]

If that happens, I mute and move on. As a result I only see the work of proper journos on my TL, not people writing 500 word hot takes on some Netflix show for Buzzfeed.

[LtWorf]

Mute? They copy paste into printed newspaper.