Comments on: Twitter you made a fool of me! http://prbreakfastclub.com/2010/02/04/twitter-fool/ .....a chance to start the day off right. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:25:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: Five for Friday 1.5 http://prbreakfastclub.com/2010/02/04/twitter-fool/comment-page-1/#comment-2369 Five for Friday 1.5 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:08:21 +0000 http://prbreakfastclub.com/?p=2287#comment-2369 [...] Twitter you made a fool of me! – This post comes way of my good friend Christina Khoury and is a great example of vetting the news. While the post itself speaks to an issue that she had, it can also be used as a larger scale push for vetting of news in the day and age of Social Media. [...] [...] Twitter you made a fool of me! – This post comes way of my good friend Christina Khoury and is a great example of vetting the news. While the post itself speaks to an issue that she had, it can also be used as a larger scale push for vetting of news in the day and age of Social Media. [...]

]]> By: Cartoon of the Day 1.5 http://prbreakfastclub.com/2010/02/04/twitter-fool/comment-page-1/#comment-2367 Cartoon of the Day 1.5 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:03:03 +0000 http://prbreakfastclub.com/?p=2287#comment-2367 [...] Twitter you made a fool of me! – This post comes way of my good friend Christina Khoury and is a great example of vetting the news. While the post itself speaks to an issue that she had, it can also be used as a larger scale push for vetting of news in the day and age of Social Media. [...] [...] Twitter you made a fool of me! – This post comes way of my good friend Christina Khoury and is a great example of vetting the news. While the post itself speaks to an issue that she had, it can also be used as a larger scale push for vetting of news in the day and age of Social Media. [...]

]]> By: GoKTGo http://prbreakfastclub.com/2010/02/04/twitter-fool/comment-page-1/#comment-2365 GoKTGo Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:55:43 +0000 http://prbreakfastclub.com/?p=2287#comment-2365 Great post, Christina! I love that we were totally on the same mental wave this week! It seems like it's impossible to know for sure sometimes - and I think your example was especially interesting because it's different if it's people you follow who you may not necessary *trust* tweet things, vs. someone you know well and trust tweeting things - I think I'd be 110% likely to believe it if it came from someone I trust (or even an authoritative voice like someone CNET)! <br><br>I think I would have done the same thing! I know that I was guilty of retweeting the American Airlines Haiti Relief thing, and that ended up being false!<br><br>I guess I just want to believe that people are good and that they tell the truth, but that's not always the case...and one piece of wrong information that gets into the right hands can go a loooooong way!<br><br>I don't think you can get too down on yourself though just because it's soooo hard to tell the truth from lies sometimes and you were definitely just trying to help out your coworkers, which is awesome! They should appreciate your concern!! It's like a fire drill or a bomb scare - you'd rather take the precautions in case it's true then wait to find out and be wrong!<br>-Katie Great post, Christina! I love that we were totally on the same mental wave this week! It seems like it's impossible to know for sure sometimes – and I think your example was especially interesting because it's different if it's people you follow who you may not necessary *trust* tweet things, vs. someone you know well and trust tweeting things – I think I'd be 110% likely to believe it if it came from someone I trust (or even an authoritative voice like someone CNET)!

I think I would have done the same thing! I know that I was guilty of retweeting the American Airlines Haiti Relief thing, and that ended up being false!

I guess I just want to believe that people are good and that they tell the truth, but that's not always the case…and one piece of wrong information that gets into the right hands can go a loooooong way!

I don't think you can get too down on yourself though just because it's soooo hard to tell the truth from lies sometimes and you were definitely just trying to help out your coworkers, which is awesome! They should appreciate your concern!! It's like a fire drill or a bomb scare – you'd rather take the precautions in case it's true then wait to find out and be wrong!
-Katie

]]> By: Rebecca Denison http://prbreakfastclub.com/2010/02/04/twitter-fool/comment-page-1/#comment-2364 Rebecca Denison Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:16:59 +0000 http://prbreakfastclub.com/?p=2287#comment-2364 Oh my! Yes, well I see your point. In that case, I think the best thing that anyone in PR could do would be to try to @ reply as many people as possible to ask them what information they have and would they please exit calmly or whatever instructions might be.<br><br>I think it could be a great advantage to PR teams trying to manage a crisis like that from a remote location because it would help get information incredibly quickly and they could then respond with the proper instructions or information.<br><br>But then again, there is the chance that tweet would cause chaos if enough people were tweeting about it. I think, though, there would be more advantages as far as gathering and disseminating information. Oh my! Yes, well I see your point. In that case, I think the best thing that anyone in PR could do would be to try to @ reply as many people as possible to ask them what information they have and would they please exit calmly or whatever instructions might be.

I think it could be a great advantage to PR teams trying to manage a crisis like that from a remote location because it would help get information incredibly quickly and they could then respond with the proper instructions or information.

But then again, there is the chance that tweet would cause chaos if enough people were tweeting about it. I think, though, there would be more advantages as far as gathering and disseminating information.

]]> By: CTMichaels http://prbreakfastclub.com/2010/02/04/twitter-fool/comment-page-1/#comment-2363 CTMichaels Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:37:15 +0000 http://prbreakfastclub.com/?p=2287#comment-2363 i made the boo boo too and told everyone in my office :-( i made the boo boo too and told everyone in my office :-(

]]> By: Glorysgirl http://prbreakfastclub.com/2010/02/04/twitter-fool/comment-page-1/#comment-2362 Glorysgirl Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:07:47 +0000 http://prbreakfastclub.com/?p=2287#comment-2362 Kate, I really like the point you make about asking for confirmation and being up front about your certainly or uncertainty about the truthfulness of what you are reporting. I like the idea of citing your source when reporting something like a crisis or breaking news (i.e. I am here at GCT and the 5 line is completely shut down; or I just heard on @cnn that ...). Kate, I really like the point you make about asking for confirmation and being up front about your certainly or uncertainty about the truthfulness of what you are reporting. I like the idea of citing your source when reporting something like a crisis or breaking news (i.e. I am here at GCT and the 5 line is completely shut down; or I just heard on @cnn that …).

]]> By: Christina K http://prbreakfastclub.com/2010/02/04/twitter-fool/comment-page-1/#comment-2359 Christina K Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:16:58 +0000 http://prbreakfastclub.com/?p=2287#comment-2359 Right - so for example:<br><br>I went to a concert and was tweeting the my favorite song on Colbie's new CD was playing and saw that "OMG - Someone's been robbed/beaten/put whatever crisis horrible thing here - just occured at the Colbie concert." Wouldn't that create chaos? How could a PR team deal with real-time crisis. They can't stop people from live tweeting and I'm not saying they should. Perhaps directing the live tweeters to their information/stream may help control the situation better. <br><br>Does that make it clearer? Right – so for example:

I went to a concert and was tweeting the my favorite song on Colbie's new CD was playing and saw that “OMG – Someone's been robbed/beaten/put whatever crisis horrible thing here – just occured at the Colbie concert.” Wouldn't that create chaos? How could a PR team deal with real-time crisis. They can't stop people from live tweeting and I'm not saying they should. Perhaps directing the live tweeters to their information/stream may help control the situation better.

Does that make it clearer?

]]> By: Rebecca Denison http://prbreakfastclub.com/2010/02/04/twitter-fool/comment-page-1/#comment-2358 Rebecca Denison Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:42:05 +0000 http://prbreakfastclub.com/?p=2287#comment-2358 I see what you're saying, and I honestly don't know! It was interesting to see Tweets coming from the Hudson River landing last year, and those were definitely an advantage because we could all get first-hand accounts and photos quickly.<br><br>Are you thinking like if someone got shot at a concert and they wanted to evacuate or something? I know there are both advantages and disadvantages, but I'm afraid I'm at a bit of a loss to type them out.<br><br>Just one of those days... I see what you're saying, and I honestly don't know! It was interesting to see Tweets coming from the Hudson River landing last year, and those were definitely an advantage because we could all get first-hand accounts and photos quickly.

Are you thinking like if someone got shot at a concert and they wanted to evacuate or something? I know there are both advantages and disadvantages, but I'm afraid I'm at a bit of a loss to type them out.

Just one of those days…

]]> By: jeffespo http://prbreakfastclub.com/2010/02/04/twitter-fool/comment-page-1/#comment-2356 jeffespo Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:41:59 +0000 http://prbreakfastclub.com/?p=2287#comment-2356 Christina,<br>This is a great post and while the story made you look foolish, you were not alone. This phenomenon of false news tweets catching fire or citing Tweets as news is something that traditional media will have to come to grip with and figure out a vetting process. This is especially true given McCarthy's Tweet.<br><br>We too often will take the here and now stories as gospel, but it might be worth a few extra minutes on all of our part to get to the real story.<br><br>Oh and did you hear? PeeWee Herman is on the Empire State Building waiting to jump. Christina,
This is a great post and while the story made you look foolish, you were not alone. This phenomenon of false news tweets catching fire or citing Tweets as news is something that traditional media will have to come to grip with and figure out a vetting process. This is especially true given McCarthy's Tweet.

We too often will take the here and now stories as gospel, but it might be worth a few extra minutes on all of our part to get to the real story.

Oh and did you hear? PeeWee Herman is on the Empire State Building waiting to jump.

]]> By: Christina K http://prbreakfastclub.com/2010/02/04/twitter-fool/comment-page-1/#comment-2353 Christina K Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:54:48 +0000 http://prbreakfastclub.com/?p=2287#comment-2353 Oh PRdude - If I was dudette, you'd be in timeout. :) Oh PRdude – If I was dudette, you'd be in timeout. :)

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