News of the tragic death of Whitney Houston this weekend didn't appear first on television or mainstream news sites. Instead it was revealed in a tweet posted forty-five minutes before the Associated Press reported the tragedy.Take, for instance, the recent death of college football coach Joe Paterno. On January 21, Penn State student website Onward State ran a story claiming that Paterno had passed away. The article was picked up by a blog on CBS Sports and spread rapidly on Twitter. Except that the article was incorrect -- Paterno was in a serious condition but did not in fact pass away until the day after the report ran.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/13/tech/social-media/twitter-not-always-right/index.html
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