- This was our first tweet from @Poynter:
- What followed was a lot of criticism. Many people argued that the AP guidelines suggest a using a confusing style that puts the "RT" at the very beginning, separated from the username. Like this:
RT Jones campaign now denouncing smith on education: @jonescampaign smith’s policies would destroy our schools - AP's Standards Editor Tom Kent did respond to that on Twitter, saying he was OK with doing retweets the other way.
- Others implied that the new guidelines were too restrictive.
- AP spokesman Paul Colford said the agency doesn't prohibit retweeting opinions, it just wants its journalists to be clear about attributing the opinion to the source.
- And a few people decided to follow the spirit of the guidelines in their own retweets:
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Work: Digital Media Fellow at The Poynter Institute. I tweet mobile/social journalism, technology.
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