Thursday, May 22nd, 2008...9:38 pm - Rachael Hainsworth
‘Twitters’ beat media in reporting Chinese earthquake
The world had real-time news about China’s massive earthquake as victims dashed out Twitter text messages while it took place, in what has been touted as evidence of micro-blogging outshining mainstream news, claims Newslimited media potral News.com.au.
As the earth shook with tragic consequences, people in the parts of China that felt the quake used their mobile telephones to send terse messages using the service provided by the San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. News of the deadly catastrophe reached Twitter users such as blogger Robert Scoble in San Francisco even before the massive quake, which killed more than 12,000 people in Sichuan province, was reported by news organizations and the earthquake-tracking US Geological Survey (USGS).
Twitters were at the forefront of a gush of quake pictures and video swiftly posted online via services such as Yahoo’s Flickr, Google’s YouTube, and French entrepreneur Loic Le Meur’s fledgling Seesmic, which has been called the “Twitter of video”.
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