someone manning the WTVJ twitter account prematurely tweeted Chicago Bulls player Derrick Rose had an ACL knee injury. Then quickly retracted the tweet and later erased it. Well, nothing ever gets deleted from the internets so:
Report of Derrick Rose’s injury was premature, his status is unknown. @BreakingNews
— NBC Miami (@NBCMiami) April 28, 2012
Over an hour later though the Universe must have took pity because the Bulls announced that Rose really did have an ACL injury and would miss the remainder of the season.
Derrick Rose really did tear his ACL. @NBCMiami will now flip you all off.
— Matthew Ryan Kemp (@TheFakeMattKemp) April 28, 2012
either @nbcmiami scooped all the major networks / papers or someone just lucked into keeping their job … guessing it’s the latter
— rickagarcia (@rickagarcia) April 28, 2012
After the retraction Twitter users started a meme making fun of WTVJ / @NBCMiami
When you get your news from @NBCMiami, you can take it to the bank…which will tell you it’s bogus.
— phil_rosenthal (@phil_rosenthal) April 28, 2012
As reported by @NBCMiami, the world is indeed flat #FakeMiamiNBCNews
— Lawrence Washington (@813law) April 28, 2012
@NBCMiami has reported that he’s found a cure to cancer RT @JDH_2009: Any news on drose. Offically
— Mitch Kwiatkowski (@MitchKwiatkowsk) April 28, 2012
@phil_rosenthal @NBCMiami Also recomending the Hindenburg as the safest way to travel via air
— Matt S (@MOS1972) April 28, 2012
RT @NBCMiami @iRespectFemales takes home the coveted Golden Ears award in Verizon’s 2nd annual “Can You Hear Me Now?” contest.
— Parallel (@ParallelRhymes) April 28, 2012
Looks like @nbcmiami is taking it hard. Because they are fucking prostitutes who cater to men with TREE DICKS! — James Doyle (@YoDoyle) April 28, 2012
BREAKING: @NBCMiami reporting that Dewey did indeed defeat Truman. #interndayonsouthbeach #thisiswhymyprofessionisgoingdownthetubes
— Adam Chappelle (@NCHockey) April 28, 2012
Sfl what’s the point of this post? It’s obvious they knew what they were talking about and didn’t just make it up. As a news outlet you WANT to be the first with the scoop. It sounds to me like they had inside sources. The problem is they didn’t attribute it to whoever their sources were.–the quasi-apology hurt their credibility more than the initial tweet.
Looks to me like it was a case of looking at other speculation of Rose’s injury…and just following the pack of tweeting about it. Lucky? Maybe. But by no means were they the only ones talking about ACL/season ending injury. So yeah, what’s the point of this thread? We have Julie Durda twitter post/Jeff Burnside post and Christina Hernandaz twitter post. Twitter makes this blog run?
Actual truth to the matter is that they were tricked by a fake tweet that was sent out.
The timeline of the tweet incident is laid out at SBNation.com their article:
http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2012/4/28/2984727/derrick-rose-torn-acl-tweets
I was browsing some NBA message boards when the injury happened and almost instantly people started speculating it was an ACL injury (same thing with Shumpert). You could say they had a crowd source…