"Free online bookkeeping; contractor tax burdens, gone, with 1099 e-filing; your Estimated Taxes and Schedule C, done; and support with deductions, the IRS, and successful self employment."
A journalist's story on Twitter's role in (a) providing journalistic training; and (b) providing strong collegial networks, in his long, difficult emergence from unemployment related to both the 2008 economic crisis and major upheavals in the news media industry.