<p>ORG XMIT: CIR140 Chief Executive Officer at Twitter, Dick Costolo from USA gives a speech at the Cannes Lions 2012, International Advertising Festival in Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, June 20, 2012. The Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival is a world's meeting place for professionals in the communications industry.(AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)(Photo: Lionel Cironneau AP)Story HighlightsTwitter CEO sees bigger role for newsrooms in analyzing, synthesizing, organizing tweetsTwitter is more like a global town square, doesn't see itself as a media organizationSays Twitter pushes back on general, overly broad data requests from governments</p><p>WASHINGTON On Wednesday, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo urged newsroom editors in the U.S. to embrace the service and news media's increasingly important role in synthesizing and analyzing millions of tweets that are produced daily.</p><p>"We think of Twitter as a technology company in the media business," Costolo said at the annual convention of the American Society of News Editors. "We think of Twitter as a global town square. We don't do journalism. We don't report tweets that come in. We're very complementary to news organizations."</p><p>With about a billion tweets produced every two days, it's more important than ever for news organizations to filter out the noise and promote links that are credible and useful, particularly during times of crisis and other events that spur heavy volumes of tweets, he said.</p><p><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/06/26/twitter-ceo-at-asne/2460835/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/twitter-ceo-says-company-will-disclose-more-specifics-about-data-requests/2013/06/26/a14d5856-de90-11e2-b94a-452948b95ca8_story.html">Twitter CEO says company wants to disclose more specifics about data requests</a> (Washington Post)</p><p><a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/06/26/twitter-ceo-dick-costolo-we-are-the-global-town-square">Twitter CEO Dick Costolo: We Are the &#039;Global Town Square&#039;</a> (U.S. News &amp; World Report)</p><p><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/26/twitter-is-experimenting-with-new-live-events-platform-dvr-mode-for-using-twitter-with-tv-more/">Twitter Is Experimenting With New Live Events Platform, "DVR Mode" For Using ...</a> (TechCrunch)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=ddSAXhbAqg2dRaMISn1ovN6gUGmMM&ned=us">24 additional articles.</a></p>