So, What’s the Fact-Checking Standard for Tweets?

Date February 9, 2010

One is given 140 characters, and there is no way to update a Tweet that is proven inaccurate when more information becomes available.

I had thought that Tweets were supposed to be stream-of-consciousness deals, rather than fact-checked assertions.

Thoughts?

One Response to “So, What’s the Fact-Checking Standard for Tweets?”

  1. smitty said:

    Blog, identify the offending tweet, tweet the blog.
    A tweet is to a blog as a pointer is to an object in a coding situation.

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