The Christian Science Monitor had a great article about Twitter and being near the first to express news on the China earthquake. Like animals and birds they chatter and nearly preempt a warning word or Tweet.
Tom Regan wrote on May 22 2008 page 16 that NPR colleagues were right in the area.Credit to the 1st report goes to Robert Scoble who blogged as he saw the twitter on Google Talk about the quake. News was out one hour ahead.
Twitter is micro talk which is what my husband wished I would make a habit. Pun on micro.
The benefit of twitter is that it is instant, quick and informative. The best news reporting is for being new…for news and for short.
I wonder if it will be the way people that live so far from family can get the real story. Many a night I have had the phone ring and my brother in Tampa calls me in Redondo Beach to see if I am ok. The earthquake news worries him as I sleep after a trembler a hour earlier.
Technology is moving along just as fast as possible.
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