How to Make it About Me
When breaking news happens, Twitter is an excellent medium for passing around information in real time. It’s also, horribly, a great tool to boast and let people know how many others are retweeting your messages as news is breaking.
“My tweet about the NYT reporting that an unexploded device was found in Newton got 20-plus retweets,” Politico‘s Kevin Robillard tweeted Monday night. “My retweet of the Boston Globe knocking it down got zero.”
Robillard had earlier tweeted a link to a NYT story on two bombs that went off at the Boston Marathon.
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