Monday, December 1, 2008

Twitter turns serious with messages of life and death

FT.com: "Twitter , a text-based micro-blogging service better known for people alerting each other about what they are having for lunch in 140 characters or fewer, has become the central channel for eyewitness accounts and news updates on the events in India.

The service has been flooded with thousands of posts or 'tweets', some from people trapped in the hotels where the attacks were taking place. There are also calls for blood donors to go to specific hospitals, unconfirmed death counts and search pleas for the missing."

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