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How Do You Know What Tweets are True? Exactly the Same Way You Source Everything Else

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Sigh. NPR writes paragraphs on the difficulty of knowing which Tweets about Iran were true. Is it such a difficult question? You know what Tweets are true in much the same way you determine what non-Tweetable information is true.
Social media isn’t some separate sphere: it’s similar, in fact, to all other source building. If you [...]