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Tiger Woods Spurns Reporters for Social Media Q-and-A With Fans

The social web just kicked more sand in the face of traditional media, this time courtesy of golfing megastar Tiger Woods. Woods passed on a traditional question-and-answer session with reporters leading up to his next PGA Tour appearance, which comes this week at the Wells Fargo Championship in North Carolina. Instead, he answered a series of questions submitted by fans via Facebook and Twitter. Woods announced the switcheroo late last week. This Monday, he posted a 14-minute video of himself answering 19 fan queries to his personal website. In...

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Published By: Mashable - Monday, 30 April, 2012

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