Point 2 is especially relevant. The access Twitter grants all of us is extraordinary. It doesn't matter where you are in the world or where you figure in the food chain. If you can contribute value and express yourself eloquently in 140 characters, people will find you. And these people are potential employers, partners, sources.

Twitter is as powerful or as trivial as you make it. Journalism, on the other hand, is about the story and the myriad platforms available to tell it. How ironic that our future storytellers think that the only story worth telling on Twitter is about going to the supermarket.

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