How Twitter crushed the rumor that Man Utd were ready to sell Wayne Rooney

Yesterday afternoon, or if back home in England, yesterday evening, a strange thing happened in the crazy world of soccer journalism and social networking that illustrated, to me at least, the huge power that has now developed across Twitter, Facebook and other popular network sites.

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