News of Amsterdam Plane Crash Breaks First on Twitter
Thursday, February 26th, 2009This is becoming common news these days because of the ability to immediately update your followers via Twitter. Story from the Daily Telegraph.
“The playing out of major events in the world of blogs and social media is becoming an ever more familiar tale. Today’s plane crash just outside Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam broke first on Twitter, the popular microblogging service. Jonathan Nip, who lived near the scene of the accident, was one of the first to tweet about the crash. “Looking at a crashed aeroplane near Schiphol,” he wrote, just moments after the plane came down.”

