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    1. erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 29 Jul 2019

      this story is based on a viral screenshot of a single question on Stack Exchange that had two replies and seemed to have been a joke but huhpic.twitter.com/948a9q9DSq

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    2. erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 29 Jul 2019

      Last week, a year-old http://change.org  petition made the rounds, and a bunch of sites wrote it up in some weird perpetual motion machine. As best I can tell, absolutely none of them talked to the organizers, or explained why a year-old petition was in the news.pic.twitter.com/XZ4eEbAo02

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    3. erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 29 Jul 2019

      I guess what i am saying is that we seem to be returning to a moment in time where "it's on the internet let's make it a headline on our site!" is apparently a viable content strategy, despite literally everything we have learned about why that's a very bad idea.

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    4. erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 29 Jul 2019

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      Anyway, this is a bad idea for lots and lots of reasons! It's a waste of time, for the people creating the files and the people reading them. What value are you adding here? The minimal search traffic they bring in is a losing gamehttps://twitter.com/mccanner/status/1155840562286780417 …

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      erin mccann |Verified account @mccanner
      I guess what i am saying is that we seem to be returning to a moment in time where "it's on the internet let's make it a headline on our site!" is apparently a viable content strategy, despite literally everything we have learned about why that's a very bad idea.
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    5. erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 29 Jul 2019

      And to make one point very clear: I will die on the "this cool thing on the internet is worth our time!" hill. It IS often worth our time! It's what I do for a living! But man, you gotta be smart about it. Churn without context is not smart.

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    6. erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 29 Jul 2019

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      There are two ways to have handled this petition: 1) a file that says a year-old petition has XX signers + a wiki history of halloween, which is what nearly every site did. or 2) explain WHY you're suddenly seeing a year-old petition blanket your feed.https://twitter.com/mccanner/status/1155839926514196480 …

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      erin mccann |Verified account @mccanner
      Last week, a year-old http://change.org  petition made the rounds, and a bunch of sites wrote it up in some weird perpetual motion machine. As best I can tell, absolutely none of them talked to the organizers, or explained why a year-old petition was in the news. pic.twitter.com/XZ4eEbAo02
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      erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 29 Jul 2019

      which one do you think actually helps readers more?

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