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30 June 2009
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A pair of recent university graduates were behind the fake Twitter account of foreign secretary David Miliband and say it highlights the importance of verification on the internet
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Got 127 followers on Twitter? Congratulations – you're above average! And do you want to guess when its busiest time was? (Hint: not the Iran election…)
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Journalists wanting to integrate Twitter into their newsgathering routine may be nervous about trusting random posts claiming to be relaying important information.
Working with known contacts is one thing, but working with total strangers and trying to find out who to trust presents the journalist with a problem.
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For more than a week, IranElection was the most popular “trending” topic on Twitter, and as journalists were expelled or arrested the microblogging site became one of the top sources of news — or at least gossip — from Tehran.
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Editorial ethics of balance, impartiality, fairness, objectivity and accuracy are at the heart of all good journalism.
Without these values, some so-called journalists will be pumping out PR and propaganda.
But with so many journalists in traditional media now invading the social networking space and using tools such as Twitter to both find stories and to spread stories, how do editorial ethics stand up in this fast-paced, instant-information world?
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