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Twitter proves its worth for timely news

By Kevin O'Keefe

I came back from a run Saturday morning to hear of the tragic shootings in Tucson. CNN and other major news services were reporting that Congresswoman Giffords had died. As I'm apt to do with any significant news story, I began to follow Twitter to get more timely updates. I wanted to get updates from people on the scene as well as national sources. National sources, no matter their location, could crowd source the story so as to identify leading information. I monitored the news by setting up a search feed for 'Giffords' on Twitter on my iPhone. News started pouring across the screen with the most re-tweeted (crowd sourced) items at the top. I learned that Congresswoman Gifford's husband was an astronaut and that he was on his way from Houston, where he was training for the last shuttle mission...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Lawyers : Have Blogs on January 10, 2011 (boomark / email).