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		r0h1n on Oct 5, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Twitter Is Going to Take a Billion Dollars Fro... Amazing how out-of-whack headlines are from the article copy even on sites like ATD. This is from the article: > As a result, if Twitter continues to grow into the de facto public social network, it could easily start taking millions (and perhaps billions) of valuable ad dollars from YouTube. So "could" in the copy changes to "is going to" in the headline, while "millions (and perhaps billions)" changes to "a billion dollars". I'm guessing the headline writer knew something the writer didn't. I wish there were a way for me to take back my pageviews from sites with wilfully misleading headlines like these.

sharkweek on Oct 5, 2013 [–]

There's a funny Ali G clip, where he's interviewing Sam Donaldson about the media and asks if it's ok to title headlines "WAR BEGINS.... with a w"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H6OULO5R4Y

It's funny thinking back well before the internet how physical headlines were used to capture people's attention as they walked by a newsstand.

pirho on Oct 5, 2013 | [–]

Respect.

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