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Diamons on May 18, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tesla Announces $2B Public Offering to Accelerate ...

Twitter's been around for 10 years, and Twitter is mostly a fad. I wouldn't call it alarming.

kgwgk on May 18, 2016 [–]

Newswires have been around for 100 years...

Edit: to be clear, my point was that "twitter-like" news alerts are not new; not that Twitter is some kind of successor to newswires.

toomuchtodo on May 18, 2016 | [–]

And they'll still be around in 100 years. Twitter? Not so much.

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