Mumbai Attacks: Twitter Adds to the Noise but Is Still Valuable
Profy —
... - and there are also people taken hostage by the terrorists (mainly US and Britain citizens). Mumbai (formerly Bombay) is a financial capital of India and a very important city as that - and probably an appealing target for terrorists as such. Wired has a good roundup of where to find first-hand reports on the Mumbai attacks across various social media sites, Flickr, YouTube, and blogs from local bloggers. ...
Linkpost | 11.27.2008
TechBlog —
With time to kill, get your PC in shape | Main November 27, 2008 Linkpost | 11.27.2008 • Mumbai Attack Aftermath Detailed, Tweet by Tweet and Terror Attacks in Mumbai & Overestimating the Potential of Twitter - Social media providing some live, firsthand coverage . . . if you can find them amid the flood of 'I saw it on TV!' posts. • Obama Pushing for a White House BlackBerry - The president-elect doesn't want to be isolated in an information "bubble". • RIM's BlackBerry Storm and NY Times' Pogue don't mix and No Keyboard? And ...
10 Most Awesome iPhone Apps of 2008
Wired Top Stories —
... Twitter, a new form of micro-blogging, became more legitimate when it broke the news of the deadly Mumbai attacks. And Tweetie is the best app we've found to follow your Twitter friends. The app neatly separates Twitter feeds
into categories, and the interface resembles the bubbly iChat interface that most of us have come to love. It even lets you search Twitter and save those searches for later. A must-have for Twitterholics. ...
Twitter Enters the Yahoo Search Big-Time
Tech Observer —
Wired.com reports: Whenever there's breaking news, savvy web users turn to Twitter for the first hints of what might be going on. It happened with yesterday's crash landing of flight 1549, it happened with the Mumbai attacks, the Continental Airlines jet that skidded off the runway, the California wildfires and so on.
Twitter is a fantastic place to find breaking news, but Twitter
posts are short and sometimes ill-informed or even wrong. So while
Twitter is an amazing tool for finding the ...


