Media News - Thursday, May 15, 2008
Twitters’ beat media in reporting China 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 was
being touted Tuesday as micro-blogging outshining mainstream news. 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 devotees such as blogger
Robert Scoble in San Francisco even before the massive temblor, which
killed more than 12,000 people in Sichuan province, was reported by news
organizations and the earthquake-tracking US Geological Survey. Twitters
are abbreviated text messages that can be instantly posted on online
bulletin boards and personal websites and sent to the mobile telephones
of selected friends. They 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.’ Twitter
reportedly became a source of information for major news organizations
covering the China earthquake.
(AFP )
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