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Originally Posted by fleury
Twitter is great for breaking news. It's slowly becoming a pretty decent news source
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Couldn't disagree more. The only thing twitter is good for is that it lets you know something is going down. No one should ever rely on it to figure out what is going on or to answer the W5 questions.
The grass fire near Lethbridge last year is a great example of that, where about 90% of the tweets were false info. It turned into a big game of telephone and people pretending to be in the know or directly affected. There were even people posting photos 3 hours late, which were then retweeted as current info, then suddenly there was fire again even though it was put out.