By Mindy McAdams
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I think everyone knows that what’s happening in Mumbai is on Twitter, being updated live.
Michael Arrington of TechCrunch wrote about it on Wednesday, and he has a nice screenshot in the post to show you what it looked like then. Flickr and Wikipedia also provided frequent updates from the ground. Arrington didn’t mention Global Voices, [...]
This is the best use of Twitter so far. My gosh, I can hardly stop watching this. This is much better than news media reports (on voters voting, I mean). I have the shivers!
You do NOT need to be a Twitter user to see and enjoy this.
Just open the Web page and watch.
Update (Nov. 5): [...]
Amy Gahran explains Twitter for journalists in a new post. It includes a straight-up tutorial on how to get started.
One thing I would emphasize: Twitter is all about whom you are following ( “follow” is to Twitter as the verb “friend” is to Facebook). If you are following very few people, or uninteresting people, or [...]
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