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Fri 05 May 2009Pig flu epidemic highlights best and worst of Twitter

NET RESULTS:‘Twitterers’ are among the first with pandemic news, but accuracy is a hit and miss affair, writes KARLIN LILLINGTON

JUST AS blogs did for 9/11, Twitter is showing that the latest social media tools significantly change the reporting of major news events.