TwitterJournalism.com: ‘How to verify a tweet’
June 25th, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Citizen journalism, Editors' pick, Social media and blogging
“Twitter is the great equalizer,” writes @BreakingTweets founder Craig Kanalley.
“It doesn’t matter if you have 100 followers or 10,000, you can break news. That’s because all tweets are recorded and indexed at search.twitter.com. If someone types the right keyword(s), they can find your tweet.”
How do you know if a tweet is legitimate?
Kanalley gives eight tips at this link…
(via @deejackson)
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