Comments on: Steve Jobs Panic – the Anatomy of Fake News on Twitter

By: Google Layoffs May Affect 30k Workers. Sort of…| Zoli’s Blog

Google Layoffs May Affect 30k Workers. Sort of…| Zoli’s Blog — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:36:04 +0000

[...] to be false information, I wonder if WebGuild went a step too far this time. (Remember the Steve Jobs death [...]

By: Dan Tanner

Dan Tanner — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 04:22:32 +0000

SEC has launched an investigation. The guys IP address must have on we blogs and once they find him, he can faces charges if he made any money. Its not only irresponsible but also a criminal offense.

By: Steve Jobs: Citizen journalism didn’t fail — mathewingram.com/work

Steve Jobs: Citizen journalism didn’t fail — mathewingram.com/work — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:34:46 +0000

[...] as I go. But does this mean citizen journalism has failed? I don’t think so. As I commented at Zoli Erdos’s blog, and on the Read/WriteWeb post, it didn’t take long for the rumour to be corrected (and not [...]

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:35:19 +0000

Mathew, you’re right, in the end the process worked.

What bothered me was the uncontrolled flood of “CNN reports… ” tweets, and that one bogus report becomes the source to another.

But it was short-lived.

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:10:51 +0000

Zoli, I disagree that citizen journalism “failed” in this case. Yes, the report was untrue, and lots of people (including me) spread the report — but at the same time, it was debunked relatively quickly.

I think that’s actually a pretty good example of how social media (I hate the term “citizen journalism”) can work. It’s a process, not a single event.