We may not have to wait much longer.

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80. It's like a jigsaw puzzle

Twitter is like a machine shooting out puzzle pieces. Traditional reporting is when somebody puts the pieces together for you. When reporters do that they make sure you get the whole picture, and that there aren't any missing pieces.

Second part is that there aren't clear editorial standards on Twitter (that I've seen). If it gets printed in The NY Times it's got to meet certain standards for sources, verifiability, etc. I really like that people are trying to get information out as quickly as possible-- and I don't think they expect me to hold them to a high standard for their tweets.

IMHO a reporter can be anyone, anywhere. It's just that it has more credibility to me in a traditional format than in a tweet.