Twitter is like the coffee machine in
the newsroom. Get a shot of caffeine and chat with colleagues;
exchange useful information but also get the latest gossip and
rumors. The difference is that what you hear at the coffee machine
you will not publish. Twitter works different; gossip, rumors and
other unverified information are published and cause sometimes a
hoax. The tweet
about the suspension of the famous CNN talk show host Piers Morgan
over the phone hacking scandal is a recent example of a Twitter hoax.
An other one from the beginning of last year was about a tweet
spreading the rumor that Mandela had died. Published on Memeburn: http://memeburn.com/2012/01/seven-top-tips-for-verifying-tweets/
