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Twitter might have been considered to be a tool for those who enjoy keeping themselves updated on the whereabouts and doing of their friends everywhere but we saw Twitter come out shouting ‘I can be of other more important use’. This was highlighted when news about a 5.4 magnitude earthquake struck Southern California near LA.
Twitter was out spreading the news long before it was brought to light by major news services. The idea of spreading news about natural disasters immediately has always been there and surprisingly enough it came from the micro-messaging service that was lightening fast at scattering the information everywhere it has its reach.
MG Siegler also reported as finding Twitter’s new search (previously named Summize) to be a handy tool for mustering information regarding the earthquake. The search lets you easily find results if you type in ‘earthquake’, incase you are not acquainted with those who are tweeting the news.
So what makes it all buzz? The reason is that the information is so rapidly updated every instant that you know what exactly is going on there and then. Compared to reporting services that take quite a bit of time to bring out the news and details of the happenings; the other added point is that twitter makes every user a journalist. Isn’t that good? Well sort of but it has its negatives too, especially when you don’t know where the news is coming from and dhow authentic (or even true) it is. Nonetheless eyes would be set at Twitter especially after its instant updates about the earthquake.
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I saw this as well. Granted, I don’t have too many friends in SoCal added, but I happened to be speaking online to one of them when it happened. I tweeted about it, and then pretty much immediately after that, @sketch678 tweeted about it as he lives down there. seriously crazy, how fast a tool like Twitter can bring awareness to thousands relatively instantaneously and in near-real-time.
Wow this seems really unexpected use of twitter, i suppose this has even exceeded traditional news propagation method, hope news channels dont start using Twitter just for this purpose
After this, there’s a very good possibility that a lot of traditional news outlets will adopt this “new-fangled” technology… Twitter’s growing into the established mainstream rather quickly these days.