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According to the stats, Twitter hosts the least literate users, with 0.56 percent of words misspelled (1 in 179), ahead of Google+ with 0.42 percent (1 in 238), and Facebook's 0.31 percent (1 in 323). Even forums attract better writers, with only 0.18 percent misspelled words (1 in 556). Even more embarrassingly, the U.S. commits "spellchecker sins" more commonly than the Brits, who carry an only slightly lower 0.53 percent deviation rate.

Erick Sass has reported on two surveys concerning the negative impact social media can have on employment.  A 2013 survey found that 8% of individuals aged 16-24 had lost a job opportunity due to social media.  A 2012 survey reported that 40% of hiring managers consult social media when screening job applicants.  A third of the managers who consulted social media rejected an applicant based on what they found.  Yet, “70% of those [young people] surveyed said they weren’t concerned about social media harming their future career prospects.”

"On days like this, Twitter shows its best & worst: loads of info at huge speed, but often false & sometimes deliberately so," said Mark Blank-Settle, of the BBC College of Journalism, in a post on the site

The image is, in fact, real. It comes from the Boston Globe and was shared through Getty Images. But the agency's caption merely describes the scene as a man comforting an injured woman at the finish line.

That didn't stop it from making the rounds in a big way. A somewhat misleading Facebook account pretending to represent actor Will Ferrell (it calls itself a "parody" but has 385,000 likes) shared the post. By Tuesday morning, the picture had more than 448,000 "likes" and had been shared over 92,000 times.