Comparing the over-night Tweets in my timeline re: coup with morning trad news makes the meme of Twitter being better at news seem overrated
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Replying to @hsivonen
Following @zeynep and @reportedly seemed to give me a bunch of useful news on the coup via Twitter.

Jul 16, 2016 · 8:12 AM UTC

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Replying to @davidbaron
In contrast, I got retweets alleging that Erdogan was flying away from Turkey and seeking asylum.
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