[MIJB#19]

Twitter etiquette, or apparent complete lack there of.

Primarily people that 'tweet' nothing else but quoting another person and at that take that other person's words out of context. Especially if they proclaim to be journalists. If you truly are a professional journalist, then you have the decency to work for an actual journalistic entity and they will report it, you don't blab on the world's biggest gossip website and in particular you don't take words of another person out of context.

The end results is usually a snowball effect of copycat followers, who simply quote those unprofessional gossip scoops. Sometimes it results in a musician pronounced dead, a sports personality prematurely acclaim to retire, or dead whishes.

Or is this a global "social media" thing? And should I generalize it?