Nope, you're wrong. CNN got the reports from Matth's twitter feed, who got them from a JA606 thread, which was based on a twitter rumour dipped heavily in sarcasm. Case closed.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...sive-stroke-rumours-spark-internet-storm.html Manchester United deny Malcolm Glazer 'death' after 'massive stroke' rumours spark internet storm Twitter was indeed the start. There are approximately 65 million tweets per day. Of which about 4 are accurate. Edit: and 3 of those are RTs.