CBS News Suspends Tweets Company-Wide Amid Twitter Uncertainty

CBS has actually begun what might be a terrible causal sequence on Twitter … striking the time out button, forever, on publishing brand-new tweets amid uncertainty under Elon Musk‘s stewardship.

The network’s news department, CBS News, revealed Friday it’d be suspending all Twitter activity from its main profiles as it continues to keep an eye on things. CBS News states it’s doing this out of an abundance of care and because of all the turbulent updates.

Word of CBS News’ choice was initially reported Friday throughout that night’s broadcast of “CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell,” throughout which press reporter Jonathan Vigliotti apparently revealed the carry on behalf of the whole business. CBS verified it quickly afterwards.

Vigliotti was reporting on the reported turmoil at the bird app’s HQ … where a bulk of staff members are stated to have quit recently, leaving Twitter as a bare-bones operation and at threat of totally closing down. That hasn’t happened quite yet, however the worry exists.

CBS News’s last initial tweet links to a story about ex-WH Press Sec. Jen Psaki‘s stopped working effort to quash a subpoena she’s been roped into. The account likewise retweeted a television section going over the DOJ’s brand-new unique counsel examining Trump. Both of those were published practically a complete 24 hr earlier, and CBS News hasn’t tweeted anything brand-new given that.

Ditto for regional affiliates, it appears. KPIX — the Bay Area’s CBS News arm — hasn’t tweeted anything given that the other day either … which policy appears to use to most, if not all, of CBS’s stations throughout the nation. We ought to keep in mind, they’re still publishing stories to their web page.

The factor this is a huge offer — presuming it continues for a prolonged quantity of time — is since Twitter has actually ended up being the go-to source for news … not simply for users, however for wire service themselves. A great deal of outlets depend on Twitter to get news out rapidly, not to point out the traffic recorded as one of the crucial social networks websites and the large reach it brings.

CBS News declining to tweet is a significant declaration, and if it captures on to name a few huge publishers … it might make Twitter even less pertinent, stimulating a real mass exodus.