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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Twitter's suppression of links has made it less useful as a news aggregator, now dominated by internal debates. News credibility now depends on direct access to news websites