News and social networks

No, Twitter is the Reuterization of news [News and the Twitter-ization of Reuters]. The concept of real-time information delivery in a steady, uncurated stream predates Twitter, the Internet, TV, radio - name it. The correct history of all this will document that social networks were informed by concepts that news agencies - Reuters in the forefront - had pioneered a century and a half earlier. The thesis that Reuters.com has become Twitterized is naive at best, and click-bait at worst, and probably both. ■