Was talking to a reporter yesterday about how to learn the climate beat and realized I couldn’t confidently recommend that she do what I did anymore — follow a bunch of prospective sources, experts, and analysts on Twitter and try to understand the networks between them.

Between Twitter’s decay and the AI-ification of search engines, I’m not sure anyone is ready for how much the core mechanisms of primary-source discovery on the web could be about to degrade.

@robinsonmeyer Twitter as a networking opportunity may be gone, but the primary sources are still out there online and elsewhere. Scientists, activists, politicians and the impacted citizens and institutions haven't physically moved. Surely there's a better entry point for budding reporters than Twitter ever was.