Tipster used in a sentence

Tipster in a sentence as a noun

It would be like a tipster going back and revising his tips after the fact.

The original tipster doesn't even matter at that point.

Maybe you need an anonymous tipster within TC to deliver the scoop.

Well, the article mentions a "tipster" that described the event. This seems like important information that should have been included if it was said.

Presumably they aren't going to go and lynch someone because a random tipster emailed them a blurry photo.

Police reacted on a tip and it turned out the tipster made a mistake. I didn't get the memo that we're now calling "police state" every time the police actually do their jobs.

>The father of the deceased, Hy Greenbaum, has offered a $10,000 reward to any tipster who can help solve his son’s homicide. My heart goes out to parents who may disagree with their children, but can't help but love them.

Go ahead and get Comcast logs from 8 years ago to prove that the tipster was a DEA agent essentially informing himself /his agency. Even if he didn't use Tor or whatever.

I was just taking a jab at the "anonymous tipster" that TC wrote about on the first line of the post. If you check the forum thread, of the 4 people who mentioned they had conflict with Cuil, only 1 had actually posted on that forum before...

We'll ask you, the original tipster, to cough up the tips, then we reduce all tips you made by just enough to cover whatever transaction fee is involved with your preferred method of payment. At least - that's the current plan.

There's nothing in the article to suggest the tipster is completely anonymous, and though Bloomberg is never 100% correct, I would expect them to vet their sources. The reporter could merely be protecting their source.

Update: We’ve had detailed conversations with Facebook, and its representatives have discredited our tipster, who didn’t have his facts straight."

So you've just got a really good anonymous tipster. Think of it as a version of Watergate on steroids with plausible deniability and no physical burglary to leave traces.

I like the idea of asking the content authors to tip you in turn when you pass the tips onto them, but is it those tips that you're relying on to cover costs or do you ask me, the original tipster, to cough up the tips + a processing fee? It's a great idea and I'd like to see it succeed.

Police truly need to expect that an anonymous tipster is trying to goad them into action. There’s few situations that should probably trigger an immediate forceful response, active shooter for example and that should be relatively easy to confirm on site.

Combine that with the ridiculous practice of posting these attacks on friday nights and the fact that techcrunch were the only people to hear from this tipster, its hard to pass off techcrunch as the innocent victim.

One online tipster, known as Tokyo Joe, became so popular he started a website, drawing thousands of paying subscribers. He ultimately drew the scrutiny of securities regulators in the dotcom boom, and agreed to pay $755,000 to settle a regulatory suit.

Federal government can’t just ignore tips of criminal/illegal activity because the tipster has a personal bone to pick the alleged businesses hiring undocumented immigrants.

> The tipster said Williams “intended to send the computer device to a friend in Russia, who then planned to sell the device to SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service,” the affidavit stated. > According to the tipster, “the transfer of the computer device to Russia fell through for unknown reasons and Williams still has the computer device or destroyed it,” the affidavit stated.