Buncha journalists spending their Saturday night angst tweeting about a style change that the AP made four years ago because of one stupid viral tweet that none of them are fact-checking is a little too perfect.
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My least favorite genre of tweet is "ooopsie I'm wrong but my tweet is going viral so I'm going to leave it up anyway."
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Anyway here is a story from 2014 -- that's more than/over four years ago -- about that thing that one stupid tweet has you all outraged about tonight http://amp.poynter.org/news/ap-removes-distinction-between-over-and-more …
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(Full disclosure: I too have tweeted more than my fair share of dumb things. It's a human nature that this site thrives on.)
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I’m a bit concerned that a whole ass conference of copy editors gasped at this old news. It’s like me gasping that tweets are 280 characters now.
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It's almost as if people are only perfomatively obsessed with grammar and style
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Erin are you... more than over it?
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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