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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.