Why we were all hoaxed? Oh, yeah, a professional news brand tweeted this: http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... Someone should get fired for this. - Robert Scoble

They pulled this Tweet off of their Twitter account. It turned out this story is a year old. - Robert Scoble

Maybe several someones. If this is really the LA Times, this is very bad. - Dr. Headcrash

Dr. Headcrash: this really was the LA Times. They admitted it on their Twitter account. - Robert Scoble

The off-by-one-year date did strike me when I saw the article. But still -- how could a news organization be fooled by their own morgue? - Dr. Headcrash

Pulling a tweet is even worse than useless as a response. It just makes everyone confused as to the source. - Dr. Headcrash

Dumbasses - sofarsoShawn ~presque...

fail - Andy Sternberg

No year in the timestamp, but it's in the URL /www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gaymarriage16-2008may16,0,6182317.story?page=1 See, May 16 2008 And now, there's a year in the timestamp on the article. - FFing Enigma

Hmm... you'd think that the folks involved in tweeting would be the story editors writing today's news, not someone going through back articles in the morgue. - Dr. Headcrash

Heh. Maybe they had some random temp or intern manning the Twitter feed. Bad idea. Hopefully everyone has learned a lesson. - Dr. Headcrash

Good job la. Keep it classy. - Daniel Morgan

DOHHHH!!!!!! - Thomas Hawk

Bitches. - Derrick

LOL no time stamp or any SC trial leading up to the judgment ~ EGADS. Quit reporting as TMZ! - sofarsoShawn ~presque...

Shades of the United Airlines selloff last year after Google mistakenly gave a current date to a six year old story:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn... - Brian Sheehan

On FF, the LATimes account is a real person named Andrew. (See http://friendfeed.com/zeigen... where he jumps in to answer some questions.) Andrew, can you address the issues raised here? - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

This tweet was a misfire. Once it was noticed, it was a) removed from twitter to avoid confusion. b) acknowledged and corrected as an FTR: http://twitter.com/LATimes... c) we shared links to our most current coverage. We appreciate your feedback and suggestions on best practices for how to handle similar future situations that occur beyond latimes.com ~ Andrew / @latimesnystrom / LAT social media guy - Los Angeles Times

Please watch our LA Now blog - http://latimes.com/now - for an update on this. ~ Andrew / @latimesnystrom - Los Angeles Times

"feedback and suggestions on best practices for how to handle similar future situations" <--- My feedback and suggestion is to not tweet things that are old. Simple as that. - Rochelle

+1 Rochelle :) - Charley M

LOL yes I echo that feedback proper journalism wouldn't have allowed the misreporting to happen, that damn itchy Twitter finger is not such. - sofarsoShawn ~presque...

time to start a score board keeping track of how many times social media corrects a big media story and how many times big media corrects a widely distributed SM story - mike

This ruined my day. - Fleagle

Here's a direct link to the LA Now blog post, from 2:13pm PDT: "False report on Proposition 8 being overturned lights up Twitter" - http://tr.im/ltFR - Here's an excerpt from the end of that post: "The court's ruling on Prop. 8 is expected in the next few weeks. Full Times coverage of the gay marriage fight is here [http://latimes.com/prop8]." ~ AndrewN, LAT [full-time social media guy, not an intern] - Los Angeles Times

Seems to me that there is a need for some grown ups to be involved ensuring that journalists check their sources and editors ask the question of their journalists - Simon Rogers

Unfortunately the 61% homophobes who agreed to Prop 22 may argue this. - Jeffrey Allan Boman

Too bad the vote of the court means more than that of the people! :( - Joey

August 2, 2006 @latimes Pulitzer-winning story resurfaced by @tonyrobbins 11hrs ago [w/o any mention that it's an older story]: http://bit.ly/iP9lC Makes @retweetist list of top RT; I'm sort of surprised there' no outrage on Twitter or FriendFeed. Q: Should every tweet of non-breaking news include some sort of disclaimer? ~ Andrew, LAT social media guy / @latimesnystrom - Los Angeles Times