Tell Twitter, tell the world

You’d think with all the cautions about social media today, certain things wouldn’t happen: Like one of CNN’s Middle East top editors Tweeting about her “respect” for the Shiite cleric the Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah. Prompting the Tweet was Fadlallah’s death this past Sunday. Within hours, Octavia Nasr had been fired. According to The [...]

Twitter: Respect its power

Yesterday’s news included an item about John Daly, the pro golfer who posted a Tweet that included a golf writer’s phone number. Daly invited his followers to call the writer and chew him out for a story he had written about Daly; the piece detailed some unflattering things that were in Daly’s PGA Tour file. [...]

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