Twitter As News-wire
Twitter is increasingly being described as a personal news-wire—shared world events like this morning's earthquake near Los Angeles support the definition. This chart illustrates the beginning of this morning's earthquake followed seconds later by the first Twitter update from Los Angeles. About four minutes later, official news began to emerge about the quake. By then, "Earthquake" was trending on Twitter Search with thousands of updates and more on the way.Many news agencies get their feed from a news wire service such as the Associated Press. "Strong quake shakes Southern California" was pushed out by AP about 9 minutes after people began Twittering primary accounts from their homes, businesses, doctor's appointments, or wherever they were when the quake struck. Whether it's updates from best friends, internet pals, companies, brands, or breaking world events, the real-time aspect of sending and receiving Twitter updates continues to motivate our work.
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1st tweets
Timeline ~ http://tweetip.us/lka98
Chart ~ http://tweetip.us/lkutx
units for the vertical axis would be cool.
My first thought was to ask twitter if this was an earthquake.. just wanted to make sure -- It was my first. :)
Twitter is so much more than a news wire. It's faster, unspun, and most significantly, we don't participate on AP. We don't share and retweet each other on channel 4.
We dynamically aggregate awareness with Twitter, and want to.
Totally agree. Twitter is how I first learned about about various news such as former Sen. John Edwards' "love child" to Cuil.com's launch and even Sen. Ted Steven's indictment today. Really amazing how fast information flies.
When it comes to verifying an earthquake, nothing is more reliable than people on the ground. Soon after I felt it, I turned to Twitter: when every Tweet in my timeline mentioned "Earthquake" I knew it wasn't just me (and it was my first quake). This was before even USGS posted it's initial preliminary report. You don't need to collect information or even yourself before posting a tweet.
On Twitturly we saw the first link to the USGS come through at ll:43 by @seanyodarouse and the second at 11:44 by @jledwell
Within 5 minutes the earthquake news was on Twitturly's homepage.
I fully believe that Twitter is becoming a news-wire and by that same definition, Twitturly is Twitter's first news agency, sort of.
Great, We dynamically aggregate awareness with Twitter, and want to.
www.uk-tuning.com TEAM !
More Twitter perspective on today's EQ:
http://chumdinger.wordpress.com/2008/07/29/earthquake-and-technology/
I'm running a website computes twitter's buzz-phrases in real time: buzztter.
It detected the spike about 3 minutes after the quake, and buzztter bot sent the first notification soon after that.
In Japan, we have many earthquakes. Twitter often works as the first and fast news source of such big news. I hope buzztter works as a hub of them (indeed it does in many cases).
CNN www.twitter.com/cnnbrk tried to post it to its twitter feed 20 minutes http://twitter.com/cnnbrk/statuses/872044628 after earthquake hit, but it was delayed going out, according to http://twitter.com/cnnbrk/statuses/872049085
Today Twitter gave us a great way to communicate with reporters and our customers in SoCal who were wondering what was going on with our wireless networks in the wake of the quake.
If only you had been around during Hurricane Katrina.
Many thanks,
John Taylor / @jbtaylor
Sprint Nextel Corp.
Hooray for Twitter today and hooray for surviving without the whale.
Regarding the first tweet on the earthquake: if the chart & timeline from tweetip is correct, is the tweet from thevixy the first one? From the tweetip charts, it looks like victuoso might have been a minute earlier.
(Not that this is a competition to see who's first, well, ok, for the news business it might be in the future.)
i just got done mowing the lawn put the lawn mower in the bk i was senceing something was gonna happen i was out bk talking to my mother in law and 5minutes later the quack hit hard with a bang after it stopped my body was still shaking like it was still happing so i called my family and friends to see if they were ok they were shaken up but ok
Added!
Twitter is awesome!
www.dictionaryofwebcontent.com
Seeing people twitter 3 minutes after they almost died really makes me wonder about their priorities...
Thanks to Twitter, I knew about the earthquake 37 seconds after it had happened.
Kudos to @biz and team on keeping Twitter live while it was going on. The work you guys are doing to keep Twitter performant is definitely paying off.
Twitter.com should gain more breaking news. Digg.com became popular due to the reason that they had a breaking news and people started going in flocks towards the site. And more and more people want it and twitter should maintain more of its hard-breaking news..
Thank you
Charles
Money Making Tips
http://www.resourcesandmoney.blogspot.com
Not so fast. So a major earthquake happened and people Twittered it. Nice job. And also on that same day tens of thousands of people lied, hoaxed and embellished about something on a Tweet. How will I determine the truth moving forward? I'll probably continue to depend on people who are paid to get it right. Sorry. Great app, but not exactly a replacement for factual news disemination.
Sometimes... those who are "paid to get it right" use tools such as Twitter ;)
http://twitter.com/LAFD/statuses/878433155
...and you may be surprised to find it here first!
Respectfully Yours in Safety and Service,
Brian Humphrey
Firefighter/Specialist
Public Service Officer
Los Angeles Fire Department
LAFD Blog: LAFD.ORG/BLOG
Hey, looks like the LA Times had the news 38 minutes *before* the quake via the USGS - what's up with that?
"Quake details from U.S. Geological Survey - http://tinyurl.com/5sh9o7
11:04 AM July 29, 2008 from web"
Leslie & Brian,
We revised our timeline screenshot, now ordered by our internal time... http://tweetip.us/lkr1g
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