I’m sure you’ve heard stories about Twitter beating traditional news media on breaking news. Some of this can be attributed to the fact that traditional news media have certain standards for verifying news.

But another factor is that we still feel the need to post a full story. Instead, we should get in the habit of posting just a headline quickly – and adding more details as they develop. Here’s a good example from chicagobreakingnews.com. Notice they started with the most basic of info and grew from there.

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