Tuesday, October 9, 2012

News station confuses man's Twitter feed for rapist's


(Credit: Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET )

Twitter handles can be confusing.


Sometimes people select them in a hurry, or from a menu after the one they really wanted is not available.


So it's worth checking whether a Twitter feed really does belong to the person you'd like to follow.


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This is a lesson that the Houston-based KHOU news station seems only recently to have learned.


For the station, in writing about a policeman convicted of raping a waitress -- Abraham Joseph -- didn't manage to spot that the Twitter handle @abrahamjoseph doesn't exactly belong to that policeman.


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