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I'm Jojo Pasion Malig. I'm the usual suspect behind the night desk of the Philippines' leading news website. I like making interactive data eye candy. Mild prescriptivist.
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Readers are entitled to know where we got our information.
Steve Buttry, Advice on attribution for journalists
How to properly credit sources on Twitter, via the Business Insider:
MT = Modified tweet. This means the tweet you’re looking at is a paraphrase of a tweet originally written by someone else.
RT = Retweet. The tweet you’re looking at was forwarded to you by another user.
PRT = Partial retweet. The tweet you’re looking at is the truncated version of someone else’s tweet.
HT = Hat tip. This is a way of attributing a link to another Twitter user.
CC = Carbon-copy. Works the same way as email.
Get ready for the real mindfuck: what if it was my tweet that was filled with false information in order to expose bullshit bloggers who have nothing better to do than write about nothing with absolutely no basis for doing so?
MG Seigler, in a follow-up piece to the tweet below that made the copy-paste and rewrite natives rather restive:
@marcoarment I used to love to plant one really weird bit of random information (sometimes even false) into stories to catch the rewrites.
— MG Siegler (@parislemon) July 5, 2012
