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Twitter No Quicker Than Newswires At Breaking News
- Press Gazette, Thursday, July 11, 2013 2:37 PM
Twitter is not set to replace traditional newswires as a source for breaking news, researchers have found. Academics from the University of Edinburgh and University of Glasgow examined 27 high-profile news events in 2011, researchers discovered that newswires broke the news first 15 times, with Twitter leading eight times and a further four events covered almost simultaneously.
