Geology
May 14, 2008
'Twitters' beat media in reporting China earthquake
“Reading some of the accounts, you'd get the impression Twitter seemed to alert the USGS to the news”
The world had real-time news about China's massive earthquake as victims dashed out "twitter" text messages while it took place, in what was being touted Tuesday as micro-blogging outshining mainstream news. via The Age
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