Comments on: Earthquake hits U.S – and Twitter

By: 140Char » Has Twitter become a weapon?

140Char » Has Twitter become a weapon? — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:15:48 +0000

[...] the fast spread of news are commonplace, particularly when it comes to natural disasters, such as earthquakes, or human disasters, such as terrorism or fire. And increasingly these pieces of breaking [...]

By: 140Char » Snow hits UK, but train travel information arrives via Twitter

140Char » Snow hits UK, but train travel information arrives via Twitter — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:05:47 +0000

[...] then there were the earthquakes. US, UK and [...]

By: 140Char » The Twitter election and a glimpse of the future

140Char » The Twitter election and a glimpse of the future — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:18:57 +0000

[...] in the past about Twitter providing a news mechanism that trumps mainstream media for events like earthquakes. And I’ve taken a look at what mainstream media needed to do to utilise the new tools [...]

By: 140Char » How microblogging is hurting major news sites

140Char » How microblogging is hurting major news sites — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:19:55 +0000

[...] you can see our first thoughts on earthquake messages on Twitter here. And it was online before the BBC, and around the same time as [...]

By: TheWayoftheWeb » News websites have to adapt to microblogging

TheWayoftheWeb » News websites have to adapt to microblogging — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:07:47 +0000

[...] minutes later. In fact, I’d even reported on it, and uploaded an image from Twitter to 140char.com before the BBC website had any [...]

By: Jo

Jo — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:39:38 +0000

120 tweets a minute! The Press need to rethink their value proposition.