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We love Twitter just as much as any tech bloggers -- that should be clear to anyone who has read this blog over the past six months. But stories like this one from the AFP are a bit rankling. Writing about how Twitter had news of this week's deadly China earthquake as it happened, the AFP implies that this is a case of "micro-blogging outshining mainstream news." Outshine, as in "to surpass in splendor, ability, achievement, excellence" (Dictionary.com), is not something that I think Twitter did to the mainstream press. And the bigger issue: they're not in competition.