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I'd also just like to give huge props to Sarah Jeong for keeping up such a high-quality live stream of tweets over the course of the entire trial. That's reporting done right.

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Yep Sarah Jeong @sarahjeong, and Parker Higgins @xor (of EFF) both did great jobs in communicating about the trial. They both provided an account along with some context.

Sarah's reporting: https://storify.com/sarahjeong

Parker's story: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/stakes-are-high-oracle...

> tweets

> reporting done right

I'm not sure. Surely it would only benefit her if she weren't limited by 140 characters, right?

That's one way of looking at it. But using a medium where people expect short, frequent updates rather than a 10,000 word article has its advantages.

There's a wide spectrum between a 10k word article and not being limited.

The realtime feeds I see on other news sites aren't much longer than 140 characters.

So it was okay to choose Twitter, I think.

Well she also publishes stories on motherboard so what are you trying to say exactly...?

No. You're allowed more than 140 characters because you can tweet more than once. The real time updates were invaluable.

How so? This isn't something where you'll have to decide in a split-second wether to take to the streets in response to this or that development. You could argue that there is some value for stock traders (and tbh, given the result, even for them it's basically the same as it was before), but that's about it.

It's just the "breaking news" frenzy applied to social media. Nothing to celebrate, imho.

Sorry but this was an example of how a real time feed on twitter can be informative in a way that a long form piece could not. A summary of the trial would not be the same as the minutiae that she was able to convey. It was done really well. If all you get is long form from New Yorker or Le Monde, you're missing out.

Not having a limit does not mean you can't post real time updates. But having the limit means you sometimes can't post even a single coherent sentence.

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