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Twitter is emerging as a major force in breaking news. But some people disagree.Today we saw yet another illustration, when people in Mumbai got the word of terrorist attacks out to the world well before mainstream media even knew something was happening. Mathew Ingram points out previous examples of Twitter users breaking (Read More)
Nov 30, 2008
: That is the key that we have more primary witnesses to events. First hand history is always better in the long run than secondary and even tertiary sources or channels of information. As someone else mentioned it is brand new reporting territory and it is difficult to fact check tweets as well as there should be some sop's set up for how to use the channels in time of an emergency. So folks make situations potentially worse. Still twitter and Friendfeed are where I turned.
Udi,
Nov 30, 2008
: twitter is a news source like conversations in the street are a news source. there is some value to verification of sources, to gathering information from news sources, to filtering out repetition and to presenting the news in a coherent fashion. these things twitter doesn't do but that is not to say it has no news value. as somewhere to trawl for raw data in the case of a breaking story, it may be valuable.
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: @greghollingsworth The lady didn't miscarry. She was 8 months along and taken to the hospital for observation, then released.Don't want to take away from how terrible this story is, just keeping it straight.
Dec 01, 2008
: @rapideye I heard that later in the evening and I was very relieved to find out that the early reports of a her miscarrying were incorrect.
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#mumbai: MY HEART GOES OUT 2 VICTIMS AND THEIR FAMILIES. GOD BLESS MUMBAI.. GOD BLESS INDIA. (Read More)
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