I used to use Twitter as a news aggregation service but since links were suppressed there it no longer serves that purpose. Instead of a curation of news you get wholly self-referential social media debates internal to the platform itself. It’s no longer useful for news, or at least not primarily.

Although the takeover of Twitter was ostensibly done in the name of attacking the media establishment it has paradoxically increased their power. To actually get news you have to go directly to news websites now, including the homepages, rather than to a third party curator like Twitter. For the first time in years I feel forced to check the New York Times or FT’s homepages just to get a basic sense of what’s going on as Twitter no longer provides that.

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i've entirely a different question: why do we have so many newsletters and still we don't get the most relevant stories in a single newsletter? and if we are subscribed to ten different newsletters, depending on what they are for, why is it that they share hundred other sources to serve the exact purpose?

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It doesn’t really work as a format for daily news because you need a broad organization