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Twitter: No Plans For A Twitter News Network

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A Reuters story on Monday reported that Twitter was interested in creating its own news network. Speaking to Reuters, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone speculated on the possibilities of the social media service running a "Twitter news network." But according to the company, that's all it is: speculation.

"No plans for a 'Twitter news network,'" wrote Twitter spokesperson Sean Garrett on his Twitter account. He said that if you ask Stone a "can you imagine Twitter doing" question, Stone will get "creative and imagine."

I followed up with Garrett on Twitter, who confirmed that Stone merely "pondered how news orgs could do this on their own (or together). Perhaps w/ direct access to Twitter data. all hypothetical."

In the Reuters story, Stone reportedly told the news agency, "I think a Twitter News Service would be something that would be very open and shared with many different news organizations around the world." This story, titled "Twitter co-founder hopes to create news network", has led to speculation that the company is planning or interested in such a news network. However, it now appears that the idea was more of an imagining than anything concrete yet.

The Reuters video interview upon which the original story was based, can be seen here. Stone was asked whether a news service for Twitter was possible. He replied that he thought it was, and explained that from its start, Twitter had been perceived as a sort of news wire.

Twitter spokesperson Matt Graves tweeted, "We're not thinking about creating a Twitter news service. It already exists -- it's called 'Twitter.'" Touche. And to be sure, Twitter already sells access to its feed of updates from users to Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.
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