First off, I’d like to say its good news that there was only minor damage and no major injuries from the moderate earthquake in SF Bay Area last week (on Tues 30 Oct - 5.6 magnitude on old the Richter Scale).
The ‘quake’ that followed in Twitter was total bollocks IMHO… Check the Scobleizer for what I mean. While I do think it is interesting to note that services like Twitter and mobile devices for sure are changing (and many cases already changed - see BBC and Read/Write for some ideas of what I mean) the way we gather information about important events - such as earthquake, fires etc - and keep in touch with loved ones. However, in this case most of the info coming from Twitter about this event was drivel (Mr Doeff was good enough to record most of it, seriously thanks) - at least it confirmed the scale of the event. Maybe in the future news organisation will use Twitter or a similar services to gather info from the field?
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An Impending Advertising Earthquake? « A Fuller View // 6 November 2007 at 7:43 pm
[...] Professor Jeff Jarvis in the Guardian yesterday. This would definitely be quake to watch unlike the Twitter quake last week. I am going have to add Buzzmachine to the blogroll. [...]
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