How much credence do you give to Tweets?

[kentuck]

When some unknown person announces "Breaking News" on Twitter, do you give it as much credibility as "Breaking News" from TV Networks or from NY Times or Washington Post or some other credible source?

Personally, I need more than a Tweet.

[Warren DeMontague]

1. It's the source that matters, not the fact that it's on twitter.

Someone credible tweets something, it gets out there faster than cable news, which is a waste of fucking time anyway.

There's nothing inherently credible or not-credible about the medium of twitter. It's a means of communication, period.

Now, an "unknown person" on twitter- no, not a lot of credibility.

[WePurrsevere]

7. I agree that it's the source. Twitter can be...

a really good communication tool but it's just that... a tool... no more, no less.

[fun n serious]

2. I vet what I read on twitter...

How well are they known, who follows them.. Do they have a credible past? etc

[OnDoutside]

3. Yes, until I see the story in MSM I view them as wishful thinking.

[fun n serious]

4. It's more than wishful thinking.

many of them are fact filled with intense detail. I follow credible journalist and former Intel/CIA for good Russia stories.

[OnDoutside]

6. The more stuff we get from Mensch, the more credible

it is, BUT it doesn't have much effect until MSM pick it up. That's the sad reality. Her tweet about Shitface/Chaffetz followed by his puling out of 2018 should be front page news but isn't. That concerns me.

[duncang]

5. No credibility

I do sometimes hope it's true. Really for me until it hits as actual confirmed news it's not real. But probably should pull back from that. How much has been released as news but got pulled back or still shows as conjuncture.

[get the red out]

8. Depends on the source

Just like any other medium.

[kentuck]

10. The source is important.

But, many times, you see nothing but a Twitter name of someone you have never heard of? Those I tend to mostly ignore. It's difficult to process sometimes.

[get the red out]

16. Same here

It is hard to weed through.

[TexasProgresive]

9. No credence without 2 verified independent sources.

That leaves out most tweets and news outlets. Lot's of gas filled opinion little real substance.

[kentuck]

11. True.

[doc03]

12. Zero. nt

[cwydro]

13. Not a whit.

Puts me in mind of the old saying, "A little bird told me."

I have learned, however, how incredibly gullible people are.

[HAB911]

14. I read a tweet

and believe it when it comes to pass

There are so many now I want to be true, waiting.........................

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

15. Tweets are like future Dead-Sea-Scroll fragments.

Individually, they mean little. Put together in a true sequence, they divulge the wisdom of this civilization. Put together in a different true sequence, they divulge alternative wisdom of this civilization.

Treasure them. They will tell our story to future inhabitants of the interwebs.