Scavenger Hunt

Tweets can be just for fun, but others can actually be creditable.  However, what makes a tweet creditable?

When trying to find a Tweet about the Winter Olympics it was a struggle trying to find somebody close to home, talking about the Olympics.  Most people I found were just watching it because they had nothing else to do.  So most of this tweets are obviously not creditable sources to use in a story.

The only tweet I found close to actually talking about the Olympics was this one:

Opening Ceremonies!!! 😊💕👏 #Olympics #Sochi2014 🎿🏂 (@ Hotel Shukis) http://t.co/12hG967PhH

— Stephanie Shukis (@whimsies08) February 8, 2014

This tweet is just talking about the opening of the Olympics. The link that is posted to this is creditable. So I would believe this to be a decent source and would think about using it as a creditable source. The next one is about the snow storm that is hitting Connecticut this upcoming week. There has been talk about a big storm in the area. This tweet I found has a link to News 8 showing what the upcoming storm is supposed to look like.

“@8NEWS: Brace yourself, #RVA; more snow is on the way Wednesday! #8NewsWx http://t.co/K1FuOlQbDr pic.twitter.com/Z3qIOMtAUs”😎😎😎😎💃

— Ashley❄️ (@_ashleydynamite) February 11, 2014