Following the California Fires via Twitter

Oct 27

Following the California Fires via Twitter

posted in In The News on 10/27/07 at 06:10 PM

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Great story on a very good use for Twitter. Twitter members are able send updates from the area real time, as well as other news outlets etc. Followers can then track the story and get updates nearly instantly! Very clever use of the Twitter service! This is a perfect example of how a broadcast system that makes it easy to push one message to many users can be truly useful.

h/t: Nicki

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[...] the idea of using Twitter to follow a story. This is not as “important” socially as the California Wildfires story but the impact it could have on Hollywood may end up costing more than 500 Million dollars! [...]

November 5th, 2007 at 1:15 pm

Following the California Fires via Twitter

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