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June 13, 2011 10:15 am GMT
Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/DWH6GeitQds/
If Something On Twitter Seems Too Bad To Be True, It Probably Is
Anyone else seeing an influx of blog headlines that go "Updated: [Thing That We Just Wrote About] Is A Hoax"?While Internet hoaxes have been around since the Soviet Union wanted to join Usenet in 1984 (remember LonelyGirl15?), we've had quite a few doozies this week, from the woman who got atattoo of 152 of her Facebook friends on her arm, to the eHarmony user tearing up over her love of cats, to the kidnapped lesbian Syrian blogger turning out to be a not kidnapped married guy in Scotland. Heh.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/DWH6GeitQds/
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