My First Response to Breaking News
Sitting here with my fella when we hear Brian Williams‘s voice break into the regular programming on TV to announce a plane that’s just landed in the Hudson.
Not sure what it says about me, but my immediate reaction was to head over the Twitter search, type in “plane hudson” and see if there had been any first hand accounts.
The most amazing account by far was this one by which linked to a picture (taken by Janis Krums with his iphone) posted via twitpic.com – a site that allows people to upload photos and send a link to them via Twitter.
message from eyewitness
Below is the picture the tweet linked to (click to enlarge).
via @jkrums on twitpic
(Note: I’ll update this to embed the picture per tweetpic’s terms of service, however their site is currently difficult to access due to the amount of traffic hitting the site. Here is the link to the original picture.)
I did find it a little eerie to read the last message sent by @jkrums just prior to the crash:
Leaving the city, had a great day. Trying to beat the traffic. Wish me luck!
To get a sense of how far one message can reach, a search on “jkrums” (the poster’s account) and “plane” can be viewed here.
As much as I find the immediate access to information exciting and intriguing, I’d like to emphasize, above anything, that the most important bit of news to me is that everyone on the plane is now safely rescued.
No matter what the media used to deliver it, that’s the best message by far.
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haha, you would automatically twitter it. But that is amazing though.
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RT “@faryl Just realized how my immediate reaction to the plane crash was to check twitter not CNN or google [link to post] “
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@Devin I didn’t even go to Twitter to tweet about it, I wanted to get more information than the news was showing!