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In October, billionaire enterprise magnate and investor Elon Musk accomplished his buy of the social media platform Twitter. Since that point quite a lot of strikes to chop prices in addition to try to generate extra income for the platform have led some to wonder if Musk’s acquisition was the start of the tip for fashionable microblogging web site. 

While Twitter has many critics, Dr. Anjana Susarla, Professor of Information Systems at Michigan State University, is elevating considerations over a world with out Twitter because the platform has confirmed to be an essential supply of real-time info in addition to geotagged information. 

Susarla lately wrote an article for The Conversation that serves as a launching pad for a dialogue with Lee Enterprises senior producer Terry Lipshetz:

What the world would lose with the demise of Twitter: Valuable eyewitness accounts and raw data on human behavior, as well as a habitat for trolls.