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> Why Twitter Should Be the New Wikipedia - Forbes
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post Thu 12th April 2012, 12:06pm
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Why Twitter Should Be the New [b]Wikipedia[/b]
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I often still hear: “Yes, Twitter, wonderful, but no business model.” Well, that's not completely true today, as Twitter might double its revenues in 2012, from $139.5M to $259M. Not bad. Also, not enough, as losses for First Quarter 2011 might still ...



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post Thu 12th April 2012, 12:47pm
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Wow that's idiotic.
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post Fri 13th April 2012, 8:04pm
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Twitter has a certain amount in common with Wikipedia. Anyone can post, and people turn to it as a source of news and information. Of course, it has advantages over Wikipedia. Eminent people freely post under their own names, and their tweets thus carry greater weight. I doubt that say Stephen Fry or Lady Gaga would have WP accounts, and ceertainly they don't post there publicly.
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Wow that's idiotic.


agreed. If twitter can't succeed, something else will replace it. the public is supposed to support it as a non-profit? horrible. twitter eliminates all context and makes soundbites king. sure, if you want to know what every dipshit D-list celebrity thinks about Trayvon Martin, you can find it. but there's no way this is an arguably noble cause.
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