What if the revolution were only tweeted, part 2: fact-checking

Last week, I argued that the best way to use Twitter to learn about the revolutions was to follow more specific topics and then to fact-check the information gathered from your Twitter feed.

Andy Carvin (@carvin), the well-known NPR reporter who has been curating social media from the recent protests, recently turned my model on its head: [...]

What if the Revolution were ONLY Tweeted?

Libya is in turmoil, and I can only witness it in 140 characters or less. It is a voluntary limitation; an experiment to see just what I can, and can’t, learn about what is going on there using Twitter feeds alone, somewhat similar to Alf’s YouTube post a few days ago. The answer? A lot about [...]