hat tip.
Twitter is building a media business using other people’s content — Tech News and Analysis.
Twitter is building a media business using other people’s content — Tech News and Analysis.
if a tweet contains a link to an article or webpage that uses special tags, users can expand the tweet to show an excerpt of the original — or a video or photo or other content — inside the Twitter app or in a tab on Twitter.com. In an interview this week with the Los Angeles Times about the company’s plans, Costolo said something interesting about how Twitter sees its role. According to the newspaper, he said: Twitter is heading in a direction where its 140-character messages are not so much the main attraction but rather the caption to other forms of content.
