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U.S. Airways Crash Rescue Picture: Citizen Journalism, Twitter At Work
Silicon Alley Insider —
Janis Krums from Sarasota, Florida posts the first photo of U.S. Airways flight 1549 on Twitter from his iPhone. News coverage at Google.
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Plane Crashes In Hudson. First Pictures On Flickr, Tumblr, TwitPic
TechCrunch —
... (which seems to be overloaded right now). In fact, the picture above was taken by Janis Krums who Twittered it from his iPhone, and posted via TwitPic. ...
Plane Crashes In Hudson, First Pictures On Flickr, Tumblr, TwitPic
TechCrunch —
A U.S. Airways plane leaving New York City crashed in the Hudson River a few hours ago, possibly due to a bird striking the engine. Rescue operations are under way. Apparently all passengers are safely off the plane now.
Pictures of the plane floating in the river are already on Flickr, Tumblr, and TwitPic (which seems to be overloaded right now). In fact, the picture above was taken by Janis Krums, and posted via TwitPic.
Here’s more Twitter conversation about the crash. The picture below is by ...
Twitter and the iPhone on the scene of the US Airways Hudson River crash
VentureBeat —
... indicate that everyone on the plane might be okay. While the mainstream media was quick to jump on the story, so too, as is the case these days, was Twitter.
Even more amazing though may be the picture that Janis Krums, a man on one of the first rescue boats on the scene took. The picture (right) was taken with his iPhone and sent via Twitter to the service TwitPic, a third-party service which a lot of Twitter users use to send pictures to their contacts.
Krums tweeted:
http://twitpic.com/135xa - There’s a plane in the ...
Janis Krums Of Sarasota Posts First Photo Of U.S. Airways 1549 and Twitters It
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews —
... There are certain times I question what the point of Twitter is–microblogging–what a ridiculous concept! But everytime something wrong happens, I am reminded of Twitter’s intangible value. Earthquakes in California, the shootings in Mumbai, and now a plane crashing in the Hudson River. Janis Krums of Sarasota, Florida reported on Twitter, “There’s a plane in the Hudson. I’m on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy.” The tweet also contained a picture. ...
Photo of Hudson River plane crash takes down TwitPic
Webware.com —
... TwitPic, an application that allows users to take pictures from their mobile phones and append them to Twitter posts, went down after at least 7,000 people attempted to view the photo of the airplane taken from a commuter ferry by Sarasota, Fla., resident Janis Krums. ...
Once again, Twitter proves its worth
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... OK, Twitter. We get it. Once again, you have proved yourself a worthy adversary of traditional media. As television news channels scrambled for information about the US Airways plane that crashed into the Hudson River, users were sending out photos, emergency phone numbers and details of the accident. Janis Krums of Sarasota, Florida was on a ferry that was assisting in rescue efforts when he sent a photo to Twitter from his iPhone. His Twitter status read: "There's a plane in the Hudson. I'm on the ferry going to pick up the ...
iPhone, Twitter on the scene of the plane crash
Top iPhone News —
Since I think it’s part of the iPhone revolution, it’s interesting to post here about the role of a “citizen journalist” who are using the iPhone on the scene of the US Airways Hudson River crash.
Above is the picture
was taken with his iPhone and sent via TwitPic, a third-party service which a lot of Twitter users use to send pictures to their contacts, to Twitter.
[via VentureBeat]
iPhone, Twitter on the scene of the plan crash
iPhone Buzz —
Since I think it's part of the iPhone revolution, it's interesting to post here about the role of a "citizen journalist" who are using the iPhone on the scene of the US Airways Hudson River crash.
Above is the picture
was taken with his iPhone and sent via TwitPic, a third-party service which a lot of Twitter users use to send pictures to their contacts, to Twitter.
[via VentureBeat]
iPhone first responder at US Airways crash into Hudson River
The Apple Core —
... Inc. , Jason D. O'Grady [image] VentureBeat posted the story about Janis Krums, one of the first responders at the site of a US Airways plane crash into the Hudson River today. The plane crashed this afternoon shortly after takeoff from New York’s LaGuardia Airport. Krums was arriving in a rescue boat and took the picture at right on his iPhone and uploaded it via TwitPic , presumably from one of the numerous Twitter clients available from the iPhone. Krums tweeted : http://twitpic.com/135xa - There’s a plane in the Hudson. I’m on the ...
First photo of Hudson air crash surfaces on Twitter
Tech Digest —
... of the plane crash in the Hudson was taken on a mobile phone, and uploaded to Twitter. The photographer was one Janis Krums, and he was on one of the ferries used to rescue the passengers from the stricken plane. Although you could say he was in the right place at the right time, the quality of the photo is pretty damn good as well - well framed, and with plenty of detail. On a side note, though - you've got to wonder if it's the first class passengers that are on the raft, while the economy plebs have to stand on the wing... ...
Twitter breaks the news of flight 1549 crash
Obsessable News Feed —
... Jim Hanrahan used a web social service called Twitter to say to his friends "I just watched a plane crash into the hudson rive[r] in manhattan" using TwitterBerry on his BlackBerry. His tweet came almost fifteen minutes before the mainstream media started reporting the crash to the public, and for all intents and purposes "broke the news" of the plane's emergency landing.
A few minutes later, another Twitter user Janis Krums was on one of the ferries diverted to the crash site and uploaded pictures of the scene as they ...
Best Blog Posts of 2008?
Boing Boing —
... featured many BoingBoing regulars. We're putting together the final submissions, and while we have a great supply of magazine writing to choose from, the blogosphere pile seems a little thin to me. So I thought it might be a nice end-of-year exercise for all of us to think back on the blog posts from 2008 that most intrigued and inspired us. Slightly longer posts will be more likely to make it into the collection, but who knows -- perhaps there's a particularly momentous tweet that deserves a place in the 2009 book. Obviously, posts that originated here at BoingBoing will have ...
Twitter Search Fires Shot Across Google's Bow
ChannelWeb Complete Feed —
... an airplane makes an emergency landing in the Hudson River a news source of some kind has to take the time to report the event then write an article about it. Once that article about the bird strike and water landing is posted, Google's search engine can crawl the results and then spit it back out to interested users. That whole process could take minutes or hours. With Twitter, as the water landing of US Airways flight 1549 showed, news updates can be instantaneous. Janis Krums ( @jkrums ) happened to be on a ferry in the Hudson River when flight went down. Krums snapped ...
Twitter Search Fires Shot Across Google's Bow
The Channel Wire —
... an airplane makes an emergency landing in the Hudson River a news source of some kind has to take the time to report the event then write an article about it. Once that article about the bird strike and water landing is posted, Google's search engine can crawl the results and then spit it back out to interested users. That whole process could take minutes or hours. With Twitter, as the water landing of US Airways flight 1549 showed, news updates can be instantaneous. Janis Krums ( @jkrums ) happened to be on a ferry in the Hudson River when flight went down. Krums snapped ...
The Twitter Zeitgeist
Forbes.com: Technology News —
... . "There's a plane in the Hudson. I'm on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy," read Krums' status update . The spot journalism has been viewed more than 400,000 times and appeared on news portals across the Web. Unsurprisingly, the Web site hosting the post crashed as well. Feb. 2, 2009: Super Bowl Visualization Wikipedia page views: 20,533 Media mentions: 133 The New York Times runs a widely circulated interactive map of the Twitter chatter that went on ...
Who’s Your Favorite Twitter User of 2009? #openwebawards
Mashable! —
... - “http://twitpic.com/135xa – There’s a plane in the Hudson. I’m on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy.” @Jkrums/ ...
500 Leading Nominees in Mashable’s #openwebawards
Mashable! —
... - “http://twitpic.com/135xa – There’s a plane in the Hudson. I’m on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy.” @Jkrums/ ...
