The Internet – Using Twitter

Listen and choose the correct answer

1. First thing in the morning, Maggie
   1. looks for new stories on Twitter
   2. adds breaking news stories to Twitter
   3. contacts about 1,000 other journalists via Twitter
2. Maggie uses Twitter
   1. just to find interesting news stories
   2. to spread news and to ask about news
   3. just to request information from other journalists
3. Twitter has helped Maggie
   1. to write more economically and accurately
   2. to use lots of very short words
   3. to include lots of important information in every tweet
4. In order to gauge the truth of a story on Twitter, Maggie
   1. checks the writer’s background
   2. tweets the same message to lots of other people
   3. asks the writer if he or she is a journalist
5. One disadvantage of Twitter is that
   1. journalists have to check every story themselves
   2. stories reach readers more slowly than on television
   3. important events can’t be described in few words