Taylor Swift presents the Video Vanguard Award to Kanye West at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles, California, August 30, 2015. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni
A big complaint about social media is that despite it becoming a part of daily life, it’s kitsch, shallow and ultimately trivial. I try my best to avoid that kind of social media but over this past week, a bit of it seeped into my Twitter feed.
For most users, Twitter has been supplanted by things like Instagram and Snapchat as a friendship network but the original microblog platform still has a niche as a news service, delivering real time data.
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