As if there wasn't going to be enough rampant speculation about which player was going to be taken by which team in which round of the draft, the enormous growth in popularity of Twitter over the last year is already upsetting the apple cart.
Now don't ask me why, but for some odd reason the agent for Alabama nose tackle Terrence Cody, Alvin Keels, retweeted a fan's tweet claiming that the New York Jets either should take or are planning to take Cody in the first round. This is currently the top story on Pro Football Talk's Rumor Mill and you can read it right here: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/04/22/agent-tweets-on-jets-taking-cody-says-he-has-no-inside-information/
So of course, being as this retweet appeared on Keels' Twitter account, alarm bells went off around the sports media landscape, leading to reports appearing on legitimate news gathering web sites like NFL.com. You know the old adage, "Where there's smoke, there's fire."
Well, being a relative newbie myself when it comes to Twitter, I can see how it can be easy to overlook the "RT" that appears just before the post. Keels eventually jumped back into the fray to "clear the air" and point out that he had no inside information. Well then, perhaps it might have been smarter to leave that fan's tweet alone and let someone else retweet it, don'tcha think? But that's just me, you're run-of-the-mill twit when it comes to the social media.
Anyway, back to trying to decipher "legitimate" rumors.
AK
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