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alleyinsider.com - 12/21/2008

"Holy Fucking Shit I Was Just In Denver Plane Crash!"

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A Continental airlines 737 slid off the runway in Denver last night. The engine on the right side was shorn off and the plane burst into flames. Passengers escaped out the left side on slides. 38 people were hurt. Fortunately no one was killed. In another first for Twitter, passenger Mike ...

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twitter.com - 12/21/2008

Twitter / Mike Wilson: Holy fucking shit I wasbju ...

— twitter.com — Loader Twitter.com Holy fucking shit I wasbjust in a plane crash! 5:25 PM Dec 20th from twitterrific... Morecowbell5ri2_bigger_bigger 2drinksbehind Mike Wilson Footer 2008 Twitter About Us Contact Blog Status Apps API Search Help Jobs Terms Privacy Login ... (more) Twitter / Mike Wilson: Holy fucking shit I wasbju ...

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shinyshiny.tv - 12/23/2008

Would you tweet your plane crash?

— shinyshiny.tv — Your plane has just slid off the runway during take-off, one of the engines catches fire, your... heart's beating at one hundred miles per hour and your life is almost certainly flashing before your eyes. So what do you do? Tweet it all? I can't ... (more) Would you tweet your plane crash?

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iphonesavior.com - 12/22/2008

iPhone User Twitters Details of Denver Crash From Outside Burning Plane

— iphonesavior.com —   "Holy f--king sh-t - I was just in a plane crash!” - first Twitter post by... Mike Wilson UPDATED: Passenger Mike Wilson of Denver was sitting on Continental Airline’s flight 737 in route to Houston, Texas Saturday evening ... (more) iPhone User Twitters Details of Denver Crash From ...

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Eyewitness news, indeed
BuzzMachine — Henry Blodget points to another milestone for Twitter: a passenger tweets a plane crash (after getting out, one hopes) — including a consumer relations moment (Continental won’t give the survivors a drink).

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VentureBeat — ... On that day the bottom “10 percent-ers” (presumably, those performing the worst) could be gone — as many as 5,000 to 10,000 employees. Damn. Tweeting after a plane crash — Over the weekend, a Continental flight in Denver slid off the runway and caught on fire. Luckily no one was killed, but several people were hurt and one passenger, Mike Wilson, used Twitter to talk through the ordeal as it was happening. Needless to say, the press is all over him now. Warner and YouTube are music video ...

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When Twitter becomes mainstream, we won’t miss anything
The Next Web — You might have heard about Mike Wilson, the Twitter user who was onboard of the Continental airlines 737 slid off the runway in Denver on Friday (38 people got hurt, nobody died). After his first tweet (pictured), he kept on sending updates on how the airline handled the aftermath. This guy is now a hero in the US. He gets interviewed by everybody from Fox News to the Guardian. All because he was the only passenger sending updates. You could call Wilson a citizen journalist, but ...