Techmeme founder Gabe Rivera and Mediagazer founder Megan McCarthy announced today, on Twitter, that they both news aggregation sites will be including Tweets as headlines going forward.
In July of last year, we speculated that the Techmeme team was considering expanding from solely aggregating news articles to also including Twitters 140 character messages.
This decision gives Twitter a huge boost of power status. It has now become a full fledged broadcast platform. Techmeme and Mediagazers decision to include Tweets as headlines means theyre giving each Twitter user the opportunity to become their very own publisher.
Is today the day that 140 character tweets can officially become news sources? Will bloggers tweet breaking news and then spend more time analyzing it in more thoughtful posts? Will Twitter conversations be contenders for headlines?
The news just got a whole lot faster.
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