Microblogging serves up rapid quake news from L.A.

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1 commentTuesday, July 29, 2008

Tweets Fly, Twitter Holds Up, When Cali Shakes

Microblogging serves up rapid quake news from L.A.

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By Svetlana Gladkova (WPN reader) - Wed, 07/30/2008 - 02:23

true, but Twitter does not really break news

What I don't see is why people constantly compare Twitter to mainstream media because of this event - they do different types of job: Twitter simply broadcasts people's experiences while news agencies actually produce news and distribute it to millions of people.