@renato_mariotti Ah, interesting. So maybe the Twitter SWAT team would shut it down early in the virality in such a case.

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Not clear it’s a violation, since the account bio and title say it’s a parody. It really shows just how parched the Twitter interface is, though — there could be lots of ways to annotate tweets, or more clearly signal parody, if Twitter wanted to implement them. twitter.com/thegarance/sta…

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@ben_golub Perhaps the front page was needed as a loss leader for the classified ads, but it seems to me that the same profit-maximizing clickbait-style incentives could apply to the journalism of the 20th century as easily as today's, difference in medium notwithstanding.

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Fair point. The flourishing of professional journalism was helped by millionaire newspaper owners who desired the prestige and civic contribution achieved with respected news rooms, and by government broadcast licensing insisting on some local TV news. twitter.com/max_read/statu…

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@jedschmidt @saletan @PetPlate “Good Boy!-lent”

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