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Quake in China
scobleizer.comFound 4 days, 16 hours, 10 minutes, and 30 seconds agoBBC: Twitter and the China earthquake . I reported the major quake to my followers on Twitter before the USGS Website had a report up and about an hour before CNN or major press started talking about it. Now there's lots of info over on Google News. How did I do that? Well, I was watching Twitter on Google Talk. Several people in China reported to me they felt the quake WHILE IT WAS GOING ON!!! Over the next two hours I pointed at anyone who had info about the quake on my Twitter account .
The Chinese earthquake and Twitter
onlinejournalismblog.comFound 4 days, 15 hours, 40 minutes, and 5 seconds agoCNN's report
Twitter is first on the scene for a major earthquake - but who cares about that, is it mainstream yet?
venturebeat.comFound 4 days, 15 hours, and 41 seconds agoTonight, a lot of us who are regular users of the micro-messaging service Twitter witnessed something pretty amazing. A 7.8 magnitude struck China and the news unfolded before our eyes on Twitter. Before it was on CNN, before MSNBC, before the BBC, even before the United States Geological Survey ...
Twitter: The first draft of history?
mathewingram.comFound 4 days, 9 hours, 15 minutes, and 14 seconds agoLike many others, I woke up this morning to Twitter messages about a disaster in China: a magnitude 7.8 (at last report) earthquake in the southwest, with thousands of people either dead or injured. Much like the forest fires in California last fall and other recent news events, Twitter became one ...
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blogs.siliconvalley.comFound 4 days, 4 hours, 21 minutes, and 34 seconds agoNews via Twitter -- now you can feel saddened and powerless minutes sooner
China Quake - Twitter Comes of Age as THE Breaking News Tool
fastforwardblog.comFound 4 days, 11 hours, 35 minutes, and 15 seconds agoHere is the timeline of the quake and Twitter as it happens From " From the Frontline ": The BBCs Rory Cellan-Jones wonders whether Twitter has come of age with the earthquake that struck Sichuan province in China this morning , Let's see, as this story unfolds, whether this is the moment ...
smartmobs.com
A major earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale jolted Wenchuan County in China's southwestern Sichuan Province Monday afternoon. Details were given in an early report from Xinhua on Thaindian News and China View . ...
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datacenterknowledge.com
This morning's major earthquake in China, which registered 7.8 on the Richter scale, affected an area known for high-tech development. The epicenter was about 55 miles northwest of Chengdu, where the Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone is home to facilities for IBM, Symantec and Microsoft. ...
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paul.kedrosky.com
Lots of Scoble-herded chatter on the interwebs about how news of last night's Sichuan quake showed up first on Twitter . Fascinating stuff. My point of view, which I have made a number of times in recent talks, is that Twitter represents the democratization of realtime headline news. It's all realtime and all headlines -- and important (even if a nascent and messy phenomenon).
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netcrucible.com
I woke up to the sound of CCTV News blaring the tidings that a magnitude 7.8 earthquake just hit the most populated area of China. Most westerners have heard of major Chinese cities like Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Guangzhou -- and even Nanjing, Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Shenzhen. But few know about Chongqing; the biggest city in China, with more than 30 million people.
The earthquake was centered on a line between Chengdu and Mianyang in Sichuan province, just outside Chongqing. This is an area with relatively modest foreign influence, but massive population.
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stoweboyd.com
BBC NEWS | dot.life | A blog about technology from BBC News | Twitter and the China earthquake
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womma.org
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rexblog.com
Before I write anything else, let me emphasize that I believe the real news here is a major earthquake . As I write this, the news reports indicate 900 high schools students are trapped beneath rubble. As a parent, I know where my mind and heart are as I read such news.
Admittedly, how the news broke on this story is an extremely esoteric sidebar, however for those who are passionate users and observers of online media and the way in which participants in an event can "broadcast" their observations, the role of Twitter as a form of first responder medium in this tragedy is already being analyzed in the technosphere (good examples:
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saunderslog.com
I woke at 2:30 AM to get a glass of water. As I walked past my office, I could hear my PC playing that oddball tone which GTalk uses to indicate that it has a received a new message over and over. It was just a few minutes after the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that hit China over night, and Robert Scoble was twittering it in real time.
In fact, when I awoke this morning at 6 AM, twitter was jammed with comments about the earthquake. Even the BBC commented on it .
I think this may be another of those defining moments for Twitter.
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elliottback.com
Today's post by Robert Scoble on the earthquake that rocked China brings out an important distinction about the nature of a distributed messenging service like Twitter. Scoble eulogizes over the speed of information delivery in his post, thrilled that he knew about the earthquake 50 miles from Chengdu three minutes before anyone else did:
I reported the major quake to my followers on Twitter before the USGS Website had a report up and about an hour before CNN or major press started talking about it.
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kullin.net
Celeb tech blogger Robert Scoble writes that news about the China earthquake broke first on Twitter. A time line of tweets can be found here .
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jackiedanicki.com
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bobmorris.wordpress.com
Before it was on CNN, before MSNBC, before the BBC, even before the USGS (The United States Geological Survey, which handles earthquake data) had the information, Twitter was on it
This could become an entirely new way to report the news, a decentralized network of millions across the globe reporting the news real time. Twitter is still a pup, imagine where it could be in a year or so.
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chinaherald.net
Take this how you will, but QQ news is posting the 10pm-12am warning for Beijing I thought was erroneous: http://snurl.com/28fym The twitter story is obvious going to be one of the more important sidepaths, next to the news about the earthquake itself. Report about the first casualties are only coming slowly.
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networkworld.com
Robert Scoble reports :
I reported the major quake to my followers on Twitter before the USGS Website had a report up and about an hour before CNN or major press started talking about it. Now there's lots of info over on Google News.
How did I do that? Well, I was watching Twitter on Google Talk. Several people in China reported to me they felt the quake WHILE IT WAS GOING ON!!!
How to find specific Twitter messages? Try Summize .
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buzzfeed.com
Twitter users, coordinated largely through the efforts of Robert Scoble , were providing news of the earthquake -- including first-hand accounts -- before mainstream news sites began reporting about the 7.8 quake. (Related: Twittering wildfires .)
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theglobeandmail.com
-- even before CNN started picking up what was happening, and with more personal detail. According to Search Engine Land, Twitter even beat the U.S. Geological Survey, which tracks quake readings.
During such times, Twitter seems like a "crowd-sourced" reporting tool, much like what NowPublic.com of Vancouver has created but with cellphones and 140 character messages as the medium.
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myseveralworlds.com
Twitter is busting at the seams with news about the earthquake that hit the southwestern province of Sichuan in China today. And once again, the popular micro-blogging platform seems to have beaten everyone to the punch for providing breaking news, links and photos about the event.
Robert Scoble tweeted heavily about the quake and has just posted a timeline of the first Tweets available after the quake .
Earlier this week, I blogged about the lightening fast bits of information that come from Twitter on a daily basis.
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humanitarian.info
So, cyclone in Burma followed a week later by earthquake in China . Business as usual, I'm afraid - we live in a world of accidents waiting to happen. When an accident does happen, though, how do we know about it?
There's been a blizzard of coverage in the blogosphere about how Twitter beat the US Geological Survey to the punch with news of the Chengdu Earthquake.
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rezwanul.blogspot.com
Mathew Ingram says about Twitter: In any disaster, one of the first things that people look for -- not just journalists, but readers too -- is the eyewitness account, the first-person description, the man on the scene. Whenever something like the earthquake happens, thousands of editors and producers at newspapers, radio programs and TV networks clog the phones trying to reach someone, anyone, who can provide a personal account: they call homes, schools, stores, friends, distant relatives. What was it like?
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virtualeconomics.typepad.com
Mathew initially suggested that Twitter may have become " the first draft of history " and then goes on, a day later, to clarify that this is a long, long way from saying Twitter is killing traditional media. Indeed.
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broadstuff.com
Or the Social Media Circle of Life .......
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seanpercival.com
An earthquake measuring 7.8 has hit south-west China, according to the US Geological Survey. Reports said tremors could be felt as far afield as the Thai capital, Bangkok, and Hanoi in Vietnam. The quake struck 57 miles (92km) north-west of Sichuan's provincial capital, Chengdu, at 1428 (0628 GMT), the survey said on its website. Via: BBC
As in previous cases news broke very quickly on Twitter, Scoble even become some type of hub of information from the scene (Twitters local to the quake).
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utechtips.com
As hundreds, perhaps thousands of school students lay dead in their collpased schools in Sichuan province, I sit astounded as I watch the news. Officially the death toll is nearing 10,000. It is close to home-apparently people in Shanghai felt the quake, but not I. Earlier in the day our superindenat struck a task force to assemble aid for Burma following their cyclone. Little did we know that closer to home our aid might be needed. A key difference in the two natural disasters are the speed of reporting.
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vanweyden.wordpress.com
Another Chinese earthquake in Chengdu the boom town, makes one wonder just how many of these recent werid earthquakes are linked up to some sub-tectonic movements, some kind of underground movement… but in china, who can really tell one way or the other. seems to have created a big thing in the twitter scene tho.
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feeds.feedburner.com
Celeb tech blogger Robert Scoble writes that news about the China earthquake broke first on Twitter. A time line of tweets can be found here .
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mathewingram.com
Posted by Mathew @ 10:18 am on May 12 2008 | No Comments |
Like many others, I woke up this morning to Twitter messages about a disaster in China: a magnitude 7.8 (at last report) earthquake in the southwest, with thousands of people either dead or injured. Much like the forest fires in California last fall and other recent news events, Twitter became one of the main sources of on-the-ground reporting -- even before CNN started picking up what was happening, and with more personal detail.
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nixon.tumblr.com
Twitter and the China earthquake
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mtippett.wordpress.com
The Globe and Mail's Mathew Ingram wrote about Twitter's news breaking success today as well. If you don't read Mathew's blog it's worth checking out for a Canadian perspective on technology. Here's what Mathew had to say today:
"Like many others, I woke up this morning to news of a disaster in China: a magnitude 7.8 earthquake in the southwest, with thousands of people either dead or injured. Unlike some, I didn't get the news from the radio or TV -- I got it from Twitter , a group-chat/instant messaging client that has been gaining in popularity as a real-time news application.
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brendancooper.com
BBC NEWS | dot.life | A blog about technology from BBC News | Twitter and the China earthquake
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tumblr.slaven.net.au
BBC: Twitter and the China earthquake .
I reported the major quake to my followers on Twitter before the USGS Website had a report up and about an hour before CNN or major press started talking…
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blogswork.wordpress.com
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Twitters are abbreviated text messages that can be instantly posted on online bulletin boards and personal websites and sent to the mobiles of selected friends. They were at the forefront of a gush of quake pictures and video swiftly posted online via Yahoo's Flickr, Google's YouTube.
Here's how information spreads like wildfire on Twitter. First responder Robert Scoble a blogger, who was on the news into the early hours of the morning, was transferring news from the more than 21,180 people he follows to the 23,200 people following him.
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