Twitter Mislabeled Philadelphia City Paper as Spam, Breaks Links to News Articles
Journalists and newspapers should be wary of relying on Twitter to disseminate new stories. Last week, the micro-blogging site mislabeled the Philadelphia City Paper as spam and disconnected all links to news articles, prompting some of the paper’s journalists to hold off on publishing stories, since it will not get the proper attention via Twitter.
In fact, the paper had to create a temporary Tumblr site in order to tweet new stories. Sadly, the Philadelphia City Paper is not the only account that has noticed the undesirable spam notice.
What’s troubling is that many newspapers and blogs rely heavily on social traffic in order to gain readers’ attention.
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