Staaaaaaaahp retweeting the stupid thing about the stupid AP style rule.pic.twitter.com/GZVI4zrCLt
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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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sorrrrry. It's hot. I'm cranky. Something is wrong on the internet.
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I was ticked off the first time, too.
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It *was* made four years ago, that’s what I thought! Confused as to why everyone suddenly was emotional
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