In an interview with Reuters, Biz was asked whether Twitter -- which is already trying to distance itself from the "social network" label and become more of an information source -- would consider harnessing Twitter's agility and tendency to break news stories into a Twitter news service. Biz started riffing on the idea and came up with ideas like giving news outlets their own special news firehose of tweets and letting the reporters sort it out, or putting news orgs in touch with tweeters at the scene of a breaking story, allowing them to serve as instant reporters.
Afterward, Twitter's Sean Garrett quieted the Twitter News Network rumors with a tweet saying, "Ask @biz a "can you imagine Twitter doing..." Q, & he's going to get creative and imagine. Related: No plans for a "Twitter news network".
So, although Twitter is open to collaborating with news orgs, it looks like they're not ready to make it happen yet. The whole area where Twitter and news reporting cross over is fertile ground for some new ideas and services, and I wouldn't doubt that Twitter will explore it in the future.
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