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Analysis of 2.6 million tweets shows Twitter is adept at correcting misinformation - particularly if the claim is that a tiger is on the loose in Primrose Hill This Guardian piece is an interesting way to think of scraping Twitter to show how mis-information moves across time in periods of crisis. I was living in London during this time period, and it was really amazing how influential social media was in shaping people's perceptions of the riots.

Twitter maybe correcting misinformation when it comes to riot rumors but its doing nothing to stop storytelling. https://twitter.com/1014retold Buzzfeed compared it to a re-life Game of Thrones http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukebailey/this-live-tweeted-medieval-irish-war-is-the-real-game-of-thr