Re: Swine flu: Twitter's power to misinform

[Dragos Ruiu <dr () kyx net>]

http://xkcd.com/574/

I love the irony of being informed about the comic from Twitter.

cheers,
--dr

On 26-Apr-09, at 10:58 PM, Imri Goldberg wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Paul Ferguson  
> <fergdawgster () gmail com> wrote:
> And despite all the recent Twitter-enthusiasm about this
> platform's unique power to alert millions of people in decentralized  
> and
> previously unavailable ways, there are quite a few reasons to be  
> concerned
> about Twitter's role in facilitating an unnecessary global panic about
> swine flu.
>
>
> First of all, I should point out from the very outset that anyone  
> trying to
> make sense of how Twitter's “global brain” has reacted to the prospect
> of the swine flu pandemic is likely to get disappointed. The “swine
> flu” meme has so far  that misinformed and panicking people armed  
> with a
> platform to broadcast their fears are likely to produce only more  
> fear,
> misinformation and panic.
>
>
> I actually felt something similar yesterday. Yesterday's evening, at  
> least 7 ambulances and a police car passed on the road with sirens  
> on. There were probably more, but I didn't start counting right  
> off.  Since the last time I saw five ambulances in a row, was right  
> after a suicide bombing a few years ago, I immediately thought that  
> there has been another terror attack. I checked the news websites,  
> and saw no

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