Twitter provided some insight as to how it handles tweets related to breaking events, describing its actions during the fatal shooting at YouTube’s headquarters earlier this week.
Vice president of trust and safety Del Harvey revealed in a blog post that there were more than 1.3 million tweets about the attack in San Bruno, Calif., in the first 24 hours after it was reported, adding, “When information from the shooting at YouTube HQ started to appear on Twitter, we saw credible and relevant information from individuals and news organizations.
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