Re: The Twitter Hive Mind is excellent for routing around Government Censorship & its Media Lapdogs.
Yeah, I tried that once.
What I found: most of the posts on Twitter were rehashing, and "hash" was definitely the word, stories from conventional media. Others were reacting, amplifying and generally distorting those same stories. A few were speculating wildly, and attracting much the same "tail" of reaction as the first category. There was no (as in, zero) actual first hand information on the story I was looking for.