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Twitter breaks the news about the Chinese earthquake

Submitted by Adam Gaffin on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 5:45am.

Robert Scoble reports:

I reported the major quake to my followers on Twitter before the USGS Website had a report up and about an hour before CNN or major press started talking about it. Now there's lots of info over on Google News.

How did I do that? Well, I was watching Twitter on Google Talk. Several people in China reported to me they felt the quake WHILE IT WAS GOING ON!!!

How to find specific Twitter messages? Try Summize.

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