Today, a Turkish Airlines plane crashed near Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. I first heard about it from BNOnews, at least 15 minutes before Reuters picked up the title, then CNN and SKY, and then everyone else. The proof is right here. The first picture I saw was on Twitpic, from someone who was driving by on the highway, and then came the closer shots. By that time, I was already monitoring the #schiphol hashtag via Twitterfall, as new information became available. And my TwitScoop column in TweetDeck looked something like this:
Even as I'm writing this, I'm getting tweets about the press conference they just held.
Twitter (and its universe of tools) has managed to become a real-time news provider. Sort of. I agree with Stephen when saying that we just *found out* about the story on Twitter, while getting a closer look via the usual major news outlets. Then Paul Smith pointed out that this won't change journalism - it will enhance it, by merely changing the way we engage it. For now...
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cand facem primul ziar online numai din twittere? :)
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