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shinyshiny.tv - 12/23/2008

Would you tweet your plane crash?

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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 imagine Twitter being my first train after thought ...

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bits.blogs.nytimes.com - 12/18/2008

Send Money Through Twitter With Twitpay

— bits.blogs.nytimes.com — Twitpay lets people send payments to friends through the microblogging service Twitter.... (more) Send Money Through Twitter With Twitpay

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alleyinsider.com - 12/21/2008

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

— alleyinsider.com — 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 ... (more) "Holy Fucking Shit I Was Just In Denver Plane Crash!"

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readwriteweb.com - 12/23/2008

Report Says Twitter Would Take 36 Years to Catch Facebook - If Facebook Stopped Growing Today

— readwriteweb.com — Marketing firm HubSpot will publish a report tomorrow on the state of Twitter at the end of... 2008, based on user data the company harvested from its controversial app TwitterGrader . Though the report's methodology is not discussed, the numbers it ... (more) Report Says Twitter Would Take 36 Years to Catch ...

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Man uses Twitter to blog plane crash
Obsessable News Feed — We often ask ourselves how we'd handle an extreme situation. If you had just survived a plane crash, for example, what would be the first thing you'd do? You probably wouldn't (we're guessing; who knows?) blog about it, but that's what a man named Mike Wilson did. After his plane veered off the runway and wrecked at the airport in Denver, he wrote the above-pictured "tweet" (warning: profanity behind the link) on Twitter, a website on which users share extremely short blog updates with friends. He waited until he was no longer in danger before he started, but he went on to explain what happened, how ...