Any eagle - eyed editor in chief , however , could tell from the form of the tweet that something was not quite right . Let ’s take a ruddy pen to it and see .
1. A lack of All Caps
In AP tweets about breaking news program , " breaking " is always in all caps .
2. An Errant Capital
There is no right reason for " explosions " to be capitalize here .
3. Clause Issues
Since a full self-governing clause follows the " and , " there should be a comma before it . It ’s also strange that the article before the " and " has no verb . The AP does sometimes use verbless clauses in its tweets , but to join a verbless clause to a all over sentence in this way is very unusual . Here ’s how the AP usually does this form of thing :
Two complete sentences should be joined with a semicolon .
4. “Barack Obama” isn’t AP Style
It is AP style to write " President Obama . " They may occasionally apply " President Barack Obama " or " Obama , " but never " Barack Obama . "
5. That missing period
There should be a period here or a Costa Rican colon followed by a liaison to a account . During breaking news , AP tweets do sometimes leave off the final stop , but lend this to all the other mistake , and it looks very suspicious .
6. It came from the web
AP tweets are sent through the societal medium service Social Flow . The fake tweet was sent via the WWW .
7. Says Who?
When something happens that K of people witness , like an earthquake , you might get a account that just separate you it ’s materialise . But something that happen inside a building ? Inside the White House ? For that , you ’re definitely going to postulate an " official say . " " Officials say " or " police say " is even more necessary in case where injuries are report .
Meanwhile , the sendup account@FakeAPStylebooktook advantage of the situation to advance their own way advice :
