Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Twitter and Mumbai Explosions July 13, 2011

Twitter is fast and powerful.  It can direct an online user to a primary source of information located on the opposite side of the world in a few seconds.

The following screen captures are from 10:30-11 a.m., EST NYC (respectively) after first reading about the Mumbai explosions that took place July 13, 2011.  The research flows:

1.) View breaking news on Google News


2.) Search on Twitter "mumbai"



3.) Click on #mumbai (hashtag)



4.) Click on @NYTimes (3.5 million Followers!) promotion of @vikasbajaj - primary source reporting from streets of Mumbai.



This video is a screen capture of a 2 Tweetdeck columns - Left = #Mumbai, Right = @vikasbajaj