&gt; Whenever there is a major thing going on my timeline will tell me about it. Because my friends will be retweeting stuff, or tweeting news articles they saw about whatever the thing is elsewhere.<p>That&#x27;s very true, and I&#x27;m surprised I didn&#x27;t remember that while reading this article. There are news stories that I&#x27;ve seen <i>first</i> on Twitter, and had trouble finding an actual news article.<p>Of course, it&#x27;s not going to cover every last &quot;major debate in the US&quot; or &quot;bomb has exploded in Bangkok&quot; mention. It&#x27;ll only cover it if people I follow think it&#x27;s interesting enough to tweet about. If I wanted CNN, I&#x27;d have a cable subscription.