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I definitely agree with you re: insular journalism, though I think Twitter has been more present during world events than FB ever has. For instance, allowing people to mass communicate during crisis. It's much better at breaking news than FB ever has been, which I would say is more important, and IMO the Twitter team needs to recognize that and quit trying to become FB.

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> allowing people to mass communicate during crisis.

I'm not so sure about this. I think Safety Check has vastly more usage than Twitter during crises.

Twitter historically dominated the real-time game, but I'm increasingly seeing Facebook do a good job of it as well.

it's better at public events, sure - you see stuff break on twitter because you can SEE it. But the useful part of FB is largely hidden from you. During world events the vast, vast majority of stuff people say on FB is private, but Twitter is more or less public by default. So I would disagree that FB is less "present" -- maybe to you, yes, but systemically and worldwide, I don't think so.

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