January 10, 2010

George and the tweet

It's the age of the tweet, apparently.

Sometime yesterday, a regular tweeter reported on his page that George Fernandes had died.

No, he has not. He's in hospital, but he's not dead.

Still, the tweet's out there, uncorrected.

3 comments:

km said...

Oh well. They "killed" Morarji Desai too, remember? (But the story was retracted in a few hours, IIRC)

B said...

R Venkataraman once had to go on TV and do a Mark Twain, that rumors of his death were exaggerated.

It would be really spooky if someone recorded a video (and setup a cron job to send an email) that they are not in fact dead and it surfaces soon after the funeral.

globalbabble said...

Tweets are an invaluable resource to news-gathering agencies when they are trying to investigate why Pete Wentz may think: "Johhny Depp is the shit. He owns an island and awesome cheekbones. Pkease (sic) adopt me". bit.ly/7ExnJK