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'Twitters' beat media in reporting China earthquake
AFP, May, 2008
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Blogging, China, INTERNET, MARKETING
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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — The world had real-time news about China's massive earthquake as victims dashed out "twitter" text messages while it took place, in what is being touted as micro-blogging outshining mainstream news.
As the earth shook with tragic consequences, people in the parts of China that felt the quake used their mobile telephones to send terse messages using the service provided by the San Francisco-based Twitter Inc.
News of the deadly catastrophe reached Twitter devotees such as blogger Robert Scoble in San Francisco even before the massive temblor, which killed more than 12,000 people in Sichuan province, was reported by news organizations and the earthquake-tracking US Geological Survey.
"Several people in China reported to me they felt the quake while it was going on!," Scoble wrote in his popular Scobleizer blog.
Twitters are abbreviated text messages that can be instantly posted on ...
