Twitter becomes vital during US hurricane

The exchange issued a denial, but not before the tweet was circulated by countless users and reported on-air by CNN, illustrating how Twitter had become the essential – but deeply fallible – spine of information coursing through real-time, major media events.
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This has started to really annoy me. So many "news" agencies seem to not bother investigating stories any more and just report based on what they have read on Twitter. It seems to be all about trying to be first to break the story now than about ensuring the facts are correct.
 
Twitter should be used by the news agencies to send out news stories....not frekking use it to pick up stories. That is just CRAZY!

PS: I still dont understand how twitter works...cant seem to figure out the hash tag retweet of a twit goeters! *sigh*

I will just stick to normal interwebz thank you.
 
Ockie said:
Twitter should be used by the news agencies to send out news stories....not frekking use it to pick up stories. That is just CRAZY!

PS: I still dont understand how twitter works...cant seem to figure out the hash tag retweet of a twit goeters! *sigh*

I will just stick to normal interwebz thank you.
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Lol, I'm the same! Tried it once or twice! Didn't work so well!
 
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