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Twitter + Earthquakes == Early response

July 20, 2007 in Twitter by kveton

Came in this morning to discover there was an Earthquake in San Francisco 4 hours earlier … how did I find out? Well Twitter of course … :-)

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Clearly it was a largish quake as folks like Tantek, Kristopher and Blaine all live in downtown SFO … we even get the actual size at 4.1. Is it me or are traditional news mediums dead?! Now if only I had enough friends across the globe and an unlimited amount of time to watch their feeds I’d never need to read Google news again … haha … :-)

Update: And of course there is a stinkin’ earthquake user on Twitter too … geez. And of course Scoble breaks a story about Twitter and earthquakes long, long ago.

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    July 25, 2007 at 11:27 pm

    Allan

    Yeppers, you are right. Traditional news media is dead.

    I still use google news - just a couple of minutes and I know if I want to dig deeper. This saves hours of fooling around with other sources.

    I quit newspapers long ago, gave away my TV last year, sometime google will also be replaced. The change just gets faster.

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