John Murrell, Blogger, Good Morning Silicon Valley

News Via Twitter–Now You Can Feel Saddened and Powerless Sooner

May 13, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

The fans of microblogging service Twitter, led by head cheerleader Robert Scoble, were all aflutter Monday with the sense that in speedily passing along word of this morning’s earthquake in China, they have participated in a news reporting revolution. Seems Scoble started getting and forwarding tweets from China even as the ground was still shaking, an entire minute or two before the USGS posted preliminary data on location and strength, and more minutes before the bulletins started moving on the news wires.

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