It was the best of Twitter. It was the worst of Twitter.

Over the last two weeks, as Ferguson, Mo., transformed from an average American city to an apocalyptic police state, I was glued to my devices, along with millions of other people, following along at every turn.

At the height of the chaos, I sat in my living room with a collection of six video live streams on my computer and two Twitter streams: one on an iPad hooked to my television and another on my iPhone.

You would think that with all this information at my fingertips I would have known exactly what was happening on the ground. That I, like everyone else, could see how each side contributed to the escalating violence in Ferguson.

Nope. Not even close.

What I “saw” were thousands of one-sided accounts, many of which were grossly inaccurate. And I was reminded that when it comes to real time and social media, more is definitely less.