CCT300-Assignment4

With Web 2.0, and the Internet moving consistently towards user-generated media, it is often difficult to filter fact from fiction. Just yesterday, the alternative rock band Every Time I Die used a twitter campaign, faking 'retweets' by celebrities to promote the release of their new DVDs. Some of the targets were Justin Bieber, Andy Dick, TMZ, P. Diddy, and so forth. And thus they generated some Twitter hype by people seeing these fake 'retweets', where they otherwise would have had none. And, with services like Wikipedia, where anyone can edit information. So a service where you can check facts for the verity of a meme or something you see on the Internet could be very worthwhile. Especially when it's not from a trusted news site like BBC or CNN, and you can't be sure whether or not what you're seeing is true.