King Kev wrote:Cocacolajojo wrote:aaron bond wrote:
What does 'from Twitter' mean?
Seriously, you may as well just say 'from the internet'. Quoting Twitter as a source doesn't mean anything. At least state which person/organisation has said it.
I know. You might as well write "I have a feeling that....". I blame the news media on this. They started this trend because it was easier on their budgets to go on the internet than to actually do actual investigations.
Information from Twitter can be as reliable or unreliable as any other source.
If the tweet is by somebody you have reason to trust then why not treat it as reliable? Of course, if it is from a complete stranger of a knobhead then you would be wise to ignore it.
Either way, I don't think you can make a sweeping statement that anything read on Twitter is not correct.
But you read something on twitter without being any more specific than that is not good. Not good at all.