While Twitter tends to get pooled in with the other “self absorbed” social-networking sites, a group of researchers has analyzed how people use the service and found that it resembles more of a traditional news media outlet.

Think of Twitter not as the red-headed stepchild to Facebook, but as an efficient news site where anyone can be a reporter but the dispatches must be no more than 140 characters long.  This method is quick and to the point.  In other words “Cliff Notes” for News.

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