You Fell For That?
When looking through Twitter, you should know not to trust the profile pictures and look at the Twitter handle.
That has not something that Nexstar’s WGHP (Greensboro) did yesterday and they got burned.
There was a tweet that appeared to be from ESPN that said that Colin Kaepernick had signed a one year deal to play with the New York Jets next year.
It looks like ESPN, but a quick look at the Twitter handle shows you it is a spoof account.
The Nexstar station did not look at the Twitter handle:
Soon it was time for clean up on aisle 4: