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Tweeting: the new speed of news

By Adam Tinworth on August 30, 2011 2:13 PM | Comments | 1 TrackBack
Can you tweet faster than an earthquake travels? Twitter thinks so:


Here's Twitter traffic mentioning earthquakes in the 12 minutes after the quake:


I wonder how many news outlets had information up on their site within 12 minutes?
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