Re: Swine flu: Twitter's power to misinform

[Dragos Ruiu <dr () kyx net>]

On 27-Apr-09, at 12:14 AM, Peter Evans wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 08:58:25AM +0300, Imri Goldberg wrote:
> > thought that if I wrote that I thought it was a terror attack, I  
> > could start
> > a panic. So I wrote that I saw the ambulances, without trying to  
> > analyze
>
>       This is almost worthwhile as a science experiment, I am sure  
> sociologists
>       would enjoy the implications of internet formented mass panic.
>
>       Perhaps October 30th would be a good date to try it.
>
>       One wonders what the demographic of twitter users is and whether  
> they would
>       fall for same.

It occurs to me that maybe most new communications mediums go though  
this confidence crisis inspired by mass panic.

See: Radio, Mars, Orson Welles

cheers,
--dr

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