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19 May 08

Jeff Jarvis: Why Twitter is the canary in the news coalmine | Media | The Guardian

Last Monday, when an earthquake struck China's Sichuan province, word of it spread quickly from witnesses on the shaking ground via Twitter, the mobile-and-web microblogging service where users share brief, 140-character-long updates with friends. Prolific blogger and Twitterer Robert Scoble at scobleizer.com insists he saw news of the quake on Twitter minutes before the US Geological Survey posted the tremor and an hour before other news sites reported it.

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