This is what I was just tweeting about a few seconds ago. We do not need the swine flu events to be blown out of proportion like the “Motrin mom” circus. Twitter, acting as a second-by-second newsfeed, reacts faster than other news orgs. In the absence of informed news, we Twitter users tend to react to each others’ rumors and panic attacks. I’m not sure how to keep that from happening except post occasional reminders to “keep calm and carry on. #swineflu.”
This is what I was just tweeting about a few seconds ago. We do not need the swine flu events to be blown out of proportion like the “Motrin mom” circus. Twitter, acting as a second-by-second newsfeed, reacts faster than other news orgs. In the absence of informed news, we Twitter users tend to react to each others’ rumors and panic attacks. I’m not sure how to keep that from happening except post occasional reminders to “keep calm and carry on. #swineflu.”