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News of Twitter's role in China earthquake coverage picks up steam

By Kevin OKeefe

Mark Tran at the Guardian Unlimited's newsblog notes a drastic change between the Chinese government's official reaction to today's 7.9 magnitude earthquake and similar events in the past, seeming to suggest that their response is related to the uncontrollable scope of the Internet. After all, how could officials keep a lid on an incident that within seconds of happening was already covered on Twitter and in blogs like Shanghaiist? Amazingly, we even found our own post on the earthquake mentioned in Mark's piece: the brief observations Kevin blogged about last night (and shortly thereafter put up on Twitter) had by this morning been picked up by an internationally renowned news source and cited as yet another angle of the story. But did word of the quake actually break on Twitter, before the major news media were able to pick up on it? Malcolm Moore at The Telegraph seems to think so (despite being from a professional news source, he doesn't hesitate to give Twitter credit for its role in the disaster response)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Lawyers : Have Blogs on May 12, 2008 (boomark / email).