Spread and Skepticism are the two metrics used by TwitterTrails to gauge the impact of a story on Twitter, and Twitter’s reaction to the validity or truthfulness of the story. This posting gives information of what these metrics are and examples of their usage.

In this post we discuss the spread and skepticism of three claims, all of which are publicly viewable on TwitterTrails: the claim that people on welfare will receive free cars, the claim that the wife of the police chief in Ferguson wrote a racist post on her Facebook account, and the claim that Robin Williams died on August 11th, 2014.

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