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> What the president says on Twitter affects me or the world But will be widely reported in every other media channel anyway, so you lose little or nothing by using Twitter directly. In fact, you might gain a little useful filtering, depending on your range of new outlet choices of course, and conversely there is a sort of reverse filter because you are less likely to miss things that are rather quickly deleted.
"so you lose little or nothing by using Twitter directly" You lose the credibility of a primary source.
Twitter is not credible as a primary source to start with, tweets are routinely removed when people don't get the reaction they wanted.