Don't take anything said on Twitter at face value, and repeat this to anyone repeating anything said on Twitter (including websites that might include Tweets). Hopefully they will, at some point, get the memo ?
Yes, journalists are one of the the most important people that should get this memo. I've been telling them this at any opportunity for years now. Funnily, Trump getting banned hurts my case.
Journalists go where there is the news. These days, the news is on Twitter, and that is the real problem.
Actually, the problem isn't Twitter per se, is that we've found out it's easier to digest (and regurgigate, and fabricate upon) 140 characters at a time. Twitter has inadvertently found an incredible exploit and vulnerability of the human mind, and now it's out there and we're fucked, excuse the French.
Even if Twitter were to die tomorrow, my conjecture is that most of the news and media will move to some other form of short-and-easy-and-dumb social network. 140 characters is what the TV was to the radio.
The news are still in the "real world", but I guess it's much more expensive to do journalism there… (thankfully, investigative journalism isn't dead yet)
The comparison with radio => TV breaks down when you realize that TV is a medium much richer in information than both 140/280-character text and radio. (Of course Twitter is not just text these days.)
But anyway, I'm much more concerned about not so much journalists themselves, but rather about those people that are still trying to have discussions on Twitter. Starting with politicians, for obvious reasons.
