Lies? On Twitter? SAY IT AIN’T SO!

Wired highlights some of the widely-spread, widely-believed, totally untrue statements made on Twitter this year:

Bill O’Reilly is gay (Jan.) // Rick Sanchez is high on crack and might not be coming into work today (Jan.) // Britney Spears is dead (March) // Pork gives you swine flu (April) // Google is buying Twitter (April) // Apple is buying Twitter (May) // Prop 8 was overturned (May) // Steve Jobs is dead (June) // Sarah Palin is getting divorced (Aug.) // Kanye West is bisexual (Aug.) // Jeff Goldblum is dead (June) // Zach Braff is dead (Oct.) // Microsoft is buying Twitter (Oct.)

If you have to be told that untrue things can be circulated via social media, you probably shouldn’t be using it.