If texting while driving is a problem, then tweeting is sheer madness. In a tragic piece of news, celebrity aesthetic surgeon Dr Frank Ryan died in a car crash after tweeting about his pet border collie, who was in the car but survived the accident.
In a similar piece of news, a Yahoo! survey recently found that after a disaster, Twitter is a sort of ‘collaborative filter’ to distinguish between real and fake reports around the incident. Citing the survey, The Wall Street Journal suggests that Twitter is “quick and easy and can be a direct conduit from eyewitnesses to the outside world”.