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Why did you ever trust anything on twitter without double-checking? Consider how much misinformation you have processed over the years because of too much faith
by throwntoday 4y ago
Why did you ever trust anything on twitter without double-checking? Consider how much misinformation you have processed over the years because of too much faith in a platform to disseminate facts over fiction.
- libraryatnight 4y agoI don't think he's talking about the information in the tweets, but the source. If I'm a fan of X and I go find X on twitter, I used to be able to more or less trust that X with a blue checkmark was the twitter account representing X. Before the hilarious shift to the gold marks, it was a lot of sifting through stupid meme accounts. People were doing verified accounts for my ISP support twitter that day, lol
- bugbuddy 4y agoIf we accept the logic that we should not trust anything posted by anyone on Twitter, then Twitter would no longer be a viable source of information whatsoever. Do you see the problem? It is poisoning the well.
- michaelt 4y agoTwitter seems like a perfectly reasonable venue to hear EA, computer game company behind Madden 2023, announce that they're working on Madden 2024. I don't need that information to pass via Bob Woodward for a hard-hitting journalistic enquiry into the truth of the claim.
- gls2ro 4y agoconsider pre Twitter blue: someone created an account named USEmbassy_SaoTome and that had twitter verification = that was indeed the official account of the US Embassy there. consider after Twitter Blue someone creates an account named USEmbassy_Kiribati and has the twitter blue mark. You dont really know this is an official account. anyone can pay for this PS: this is just hypothetical I dont really know if those embassies exists.