Another example of the dangers of Twitter

[Andy _ Kent]

This story ran in today's Miami Herald:

http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/football/story/1078584.html

Wonder what "Miss Lovely And Talented" would think about this.

 

[joe king]

This has always been my biggest concern regarding journalism's use of the communication explosion. How do you know anyone is who they say they are? That goes for everything from e-mails and texts to Twitter and Facebook.

 

[Bullwinkle]

I love how the golden rule is to not use e-mailed quotes unless absolutely necessary, and yet Facebook and MySpace and Twitter updates are published without second thought.

We were duped!!!!! There's a picture of Chad and everything!!!!

 

[Diabeetus]

I think the title should be "Another example of the dangers of stupidity."

Seriously.

 

[playthrough]

True, 'beetus, but a lot of the higher-ups in this biz are going ga-ga at all things Twitter without ever considering these possibilities. It's gonna bite someone pretty hard at some point.

 

[OnTheRiver]

Tony La Russa's suing Twitter because someone set up an account saying it was him and posted updates about the Cardinals. Profanity-laced, I can only assume.

If you really want to imitate La Russa, you'll need to change your Twitter message six times in the eighth inning, just because you're that goddamned smart.

 

[Diabeetus]

Tony La Russa's suing Twitter because someone set up an account saying it was him and posted updates about the Cardinals. Profanity-laced, I can only assume.

If you really want to imitate La Russa, you'll need to change your Twitter message six times in the eighth inning, just because you're that goddamned smart.

This made me smile

 

[NDub]

Twitter can useful if used correctly. Newspapers can establish a following and tweet something like "Local man found dead in apartment, city's 31st homicide. Read more in today's Podunk Times."

Sure there are imposters for athletes, celebrities, etc., but Twitter isn't evil. It's part of the future of journalism, not necessarily the whole thing. There's nothing newspapers can do to stop that.

 

[Andy _ Kent]

I think the title should be "Another example of the dangers of stupidity."

Seriously.

I thought about something along those lines, but I've been accused in the past of coming up with confusing titles so I wanted to be more straight forward this time around. Although I haven't checked the Wiki Dictionary yet to see if Twitter is listed as a synonym under "Stupidity."

 

[Diabeetus]

I don't have a major beef with Twitter. But it is a new means for stupid people to prove it to the world.

 

[fishwrapper]

Tony La Russa's suing Twitter because someone set up an account saying it was him and posted updates about the Cardinals. Profanity-laced, I can only assume.

If you really want to imitate La Russa, you'll need to change your Twitter message six times in the eighth inning, just because you're that goddamned smart.

This made me smile

Were the authorities able to apprehend the impostor drunk, asleep behind a wheel of an SUV at an intersection?

 

[Hackie]

You have to be extremely careful with Twitter. It can be a nice tool, for event notices and game updates and etc.

I know our following has expanded because of it, simply because it's the latest craze and people realize we aren't completely old school.

 

[buckweaver]

True, 'beetus, but a lot of the higher-ups in this biz are going ga-ga at all things Twitter without ever considering these possibilities. It's gonna bite someone pretty hard at some point.

I blame old people.

 

[Batman]

Tony La Russa's suing Twitter because someone set up an account saying it was him and posted updates about the Cardinals. Profanity-laced, I can only assume.

If you really want to imitate La Russa, you'll need to change your Twitter message six times in the eighth inning, just because you're that goddamned smart.

You'd also have to have some days where your eighth tweet is the one about your pitcher.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Facebook and Twitter: Danger, Will Robinson.

 

[Sp0rtScribe]

Facebook and Twitter: Danger, Will Robinson.

I would never mess with Facebook. But our paper uses Twitter and we've developed a fairly decent following off that alone and have managed to drive at least some folks to the Web site or print edition.

 

[Fredrick]

True, 'beetus, but a lot of the higher-ups in this biz are going ga-ga at all things Twitter without ever considering these possibilities. It's gonna bite someone pretty hard at some point.

True. I am amazed at the young punks who tend to be in charge of hip Internet newspaper sites who believe all these people are who they say they are. I'd love to see these reckless bastards get burned. In this business, you don't run ANYTHING on ****ing twitter unless you are SURE it is the person. And how you figure that out??? Good luck. I've seen some of these higher ups think twitter is the next way to acquire comments from sources. Bunch of ****. What are there? 37 characters? **** off, higher ups.

 

[pseudo]

Behold the power of T.O. plus Twitter:
http://myespn.go.com/blogs/afceast/0-8-135/Welcome-mat-rolls-only-so-far-for-T-O-.html
http://myespn.go.com/blogs/afceast/0-8-137/T-O--takes-shotgun-approach-to-house-hunting.html
http://myespn.go.com/blogs/afceast/0-8-141/T-O--chirps-back-over-housing-drama.html

 

[OnTheRiver]

Tony La Russa's suing Twitter because someone set up an account saying it was him and posted updates about the Cardinals. Profanity-laced, I can only assume.

If you really want to imitate La Russa, you'll need to change your Twitter message six times in the eighth inning, just because you're that goddamned smart.

You'd also have to have some days where your eighth tweet is the one about your pitcher.

Well struck.

 

[daytonadan1983]

I'm doing PR for an indoor football league and we've been using Twitter effectively to post in-game updates ... it's helpful because a couple of our arenas have weak internet access.

Trouble is, the team twitterers don't realize that they're an official communication vehicle and I had to devise an "official twitter style guide" to help them, which makes me confident that the apocalypse is indeed soon upon us.