Business Insider - Yesterday, Facebook announced major changes to its News Feed to show more news articles and high-quality content and fewer LOLCats, meme photos, and boring status updates (Business Insider's Jillian D'Onfro wrote about them in detail here). The changes are huge news for large online publishers, whose content will now claim a larger share of the coveted News Feed slots and gain increased exposure with Facebook's more than 1 billion users. But as Digiday's Brian Morrisey points out, the changes will also help Facebook encroach on Twitter's territory as the destination social network for real-time news and quality content. Through its heavy traffic during big-time national news stories like the Osama bin Laden killing, as well as the media industry's general love affair with the service, Twitter has earned a reputation as a place people can go to find news as it breaks and generally get the temperature of what's going on in their particula
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