Posted on Apr 24, 2012 Updated on Jun 2, 2021, 6:05 pm CDT
“Do you prefer chicken thighs and legs over white meat?”
That’s not exactly the hard-hitting journalism you’d expect to find from the Associated Press. But for the second time this month, AP has turned to Twitter to find unique sources for forthcoming articles.
This particular tweet had Twitter users salivating for all the wrong reasons.
Fernando Alfonso III served as an early Reddit and 4chan reporter and the Daily Dot’s first art director until 2016. He’s gone on to report at Lexington’s Herald-Leader and at the Houston Chronicle.