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Confirmation bias? Or a quirk of Twitter? You decide...
Yesterday, at 11.11pm, Dr Phil Hammond sent out this tweet in all good faith. He had *accurately* quoted from a misworded GMC release.
#BawaGarbahttps://twitter.com/drphilhammond/status/959563788268777472 …
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John Clarke Retweeted Ben Pennington
Just 5 minutes later, at 11:11pm, Ben Pennington, a Media Relations Manager with GMC promptly replies to Dr Hammond, pointing out that there was a critical wording error in the release and steering him to an updated version.https://twitter.com/westcliffben/status/959565005929709568 …
John Clarke added,
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John Clarke Retweeted Dr Phil Hammond
Registered at the same time as Ben's tweet - 11:11pm, Dr Hammond then sends out an immediate clarification, having been made aware of the error. Why do I mention all this?https://twitter.com/drphilhammond/status/959564898442280960 …
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Dr Phil HammondVerified account @drphilhammondAh. It appears that the chair of the GMC - or a member of his team - made a rudimentary error under enormous pressure, substituting the word 'unlikely' for 'likely' when rushing out a panicked email on a Friday evening. Let's learn lessons without blaming anyone https://twitter.com/drphilhammond/status/959563788268777472 …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
Well, now go and look at how many clinicians chose to RT Dr Hammond's original tweet in the 24hrs since, but NOT RT either of the subsequent clarifications. I stopped looking once I hit double figures...
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Replying to @C7RKY
First wrong message has 49 RTs. The clarification from Dr Hammond has >200 RTs. Seems likely to me that those who re-tweeted the wrong message also re-tweeted the clarification?
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John Clarke Retweeted John Clarke
I went through each person's timeline to ensure they hadn't RTd either clarification or offered clarification of their own. Some did, many didn't.https://twitter.com/c7rky/status/959927313583476736 …
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Replying to @C7RKY
I agree John. I had a quick look but resisted the temptation to go through them all ;)
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Haha! Yes... I gave up once I was comfortably into double figures too. I originally intended to tweet the 'culprits' directly and ask them to correct the mistake, but there were too many of them
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