Air Jordan Twitter Rumors
Many of you may have read circulating Air Jordan Twitter rumors about a young man trampled to death on Friday after mobs rushed the department stores to purchase the new Air Jordan XI Retro tennis shoes. However the Air Jordan Twitter rumors were proven false. The buzz surrounding this hoax goes to prove the power and influence of social media even to propagate a hoax such as this. Lets take a look at some of the comments, posts, and find out exactly how this story came about.
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Air Jordan Twitter Rumors
The Air Jordan Twitter rumors surrounding the death of Tyreek Amir Jacobs were proven false, however whats really wild is that the Facebook page entitled, RIP Tyreek AMIR Jacobs Got Killed For Jordan Concords already has 31,476 Likes since Friday! Not to mention the admin of the site still claims that his step-brother was in fact trampled at a department store releasing the limited addition Jordan shoes. His posts are very vulgar and the young man is taking offense to those that dispel the Air Jordan Twitter Rumors. However Mashable has confirmed that the Air Jordan Twitter rumors are in fact false.
Air Jordan XI shoes were released Friday to mobs of eager shoppers, hoping to snag a pair of the retro Nike sneaks. Amid reported arrests and robberies, social networks buzzed that an 18-year-old had been trampled to death in suburban Washington, D.C. while shopping for the popular shoes.
However, according to multiple reports, even though the death rumor was a hoax, there were numerous serious injuries across the country due to pushing, shoving and fighting at stores in cities such as Indianapolis, Atlanta, Seattle and Richmond, Calif.
http://mashable.com/2011/12/24/air-jordans-death/
So if you’re wondering how this news went viral the answer is simple and often used as a social media marketing strategy to draw fans, likes, and +1’s. If there is a story that is viral such as folks going crazy to buy new Jordans then creating your own stories or posts based on this popular trending news topic then you are sure to draw traffic to your site or social media pages. That’s how these Air Jordan Twitter rumors surfaced and went viral in such a major way. But check this out, the story gets even more bizarre.
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So it turns out that the picture on the popular Facebook page surrounding the hoax and the picture that was shared across the Air Jordan Twitter rumors was in fact a real man that lives in London, unaffiliated with the rumors as reported by the Baltimore Sun.
A 22-year-old London man who says his photo from a stock image catalog was used in a hoax about a killing for Air Jordans wants Americans to know: “I’m actually alive.”
In London, Sidney Boahen says he was getting home from his job as a pharmacist trainee and saw in his Facebook inbox that a friend had seen the report. “It’s you!” they said.
Boahen said the photo was taken five years ago without his permission by a teacher. He remembers the photos being taken – but didn’t know they would eventually be sold and made available as stock images. “This is a legal issue now, because I was only 17 at the time and he didn’t have my parent’s permission,” he told me in a phone conversation.
So in reporting on a hoax, how does a reporter make sure they’re not being punked again? I had messaged Sidney last night after he posted on our blog taking ownership of the photo. He called me today, and I asked him to accept my friend request. His timeline from yesterday afternoon shows friends commenting on how ridiculous it was that he was now known in the ‘States as “Tyreek Jacobs.”
“That’s you in chemistry lol nuts man. You should stop it before it gets outta control,” one person wrote.
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From false death claims to other controversial news, these Air Jordan Twitter rumors aren’t a first. It just goes to show that although social media sites are valuable for gathering up-to-date information, as exemplified by these Air Jordan Twitter rumors, they can’t always be trusted.
Image attribution 1: http://www.nicekicks.com/air-jordans/air-jordan-11/
Image attribution 2: http://www.truestaris.com/profiles/blogs/jacobs-loses-his-life-over-jordans