Twitter has long been regarded as a default news channel for breaking stories, featuring them well ahead of traditional news outlets. It's also the place where you can get valuable content that you wouldn't normally find such as people sharing first-hand real time accounts with photo and video. Indeed, this content often sets the mainstream news agenda, as the famous picture of the plane in the Hudson river showed, first uploaded to Twitpic.
Facebook however, despite enjoying the advantage of a significantly larger userbase has never been the place for finding breaking news, nor has it been as natural a channel for journalists to use for sourcing stories as Twitter is. That could be starting to change though, as it seems that Facebook is waking up to the huge potential if they can be seen as a valuable newsource both for consumers and the media industry. So where do the opportunities lie and how can Facebook revolutionise the consumption of news?
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