Must-Read: : With Its Curation Product Twitter Becomes an Editorial Beast. Does This Beast Have a Soul?: "A lot rides on [Twitter's] Project Lightning...
...Let’s see it before we assess. And the curation principles: let’s see them when they’re ready. If I were a VC, a shareholder or an employee with a big stake in Twitter getting this right, I would be slightly concerned if the choice is simply to import consensus practice and ‘apply’ it to make Lightning happen. ‘We have a professional newsroom now’ you can proudly say, skipping over the part where you say what a technology company uses one of those for.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/its-curation-product-twitter-becomes-editorial-beast-does-jay-rosen
