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One way to look at this problem is to ask "how to secure Twitter". Another way to look at this problem is to ask whether people should trust Twitter as an offi

One way to look at this problem is to ask "how to secure Twitter". Another way to look at this problem is to ask whether people should trust Twitter as an official source of information. I think there is a big organisational difference between the AP and Twitter, but that's just me. Twitter does not employ journalists. Twitter is not the press.

SyneRyder 6y ago
People who have been interviewed by journalists know they regularly get things wrong, like a game of Telephone Whispers. Journalists are not experts in the topic and get things wrong even when they don't mean to - it might be as simple as mishearing the interviewed person, or rounding up a number that they shouldn't. Sometimes it's far more egregious. At least when Twitter is secure, you see the exact words that were typed, and not through the filter of a reporter who may have misread. I've personally been misquoted in media interviews. Not a major thing, but I could now use that newspaper article to claim I've done more than I really have, because hey, the newspapers said I did! It must be true! (I didn't downvote you though, I think the downvotes are unfair.)