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Comment by crabasa | Hacker News Reader

    echo "Tesla to offer $1.4 billion shares, remaining to be sold by Elon Musk. 
    Musk is exercising options to buy 5.5m shares and will boost overall holdings 
    on net basis. Developing... " | wc
    1      30     176

News articles and tweets are converging at an alarming rate.

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Eh, that's just fintech. They push stuff like that out as fast as possible, then update it continuously as the story develops. The difference in a few millisecond of publishing is directly correlated to profit.

Twitter's been around for 10 years, and Twitter is mostly a fad. I wouldn't call it alarming.

Newswires have been around for 100 years...

Edit: to be clear, my point was that "twitter-like" news alerts are not new; not that Twitter is some kind of successor to newswires.

And they'll still be around in 100 years. Twitter? Not so much.

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