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August 8, 2008

Bangalore bomb blasts show real use of Twitter

‘Earthquake reported on Twitter. No sh*t.’

I felt Jemima Kiss at The Guardian was trying to tell me something with this headline – we know that this 140-character micro-blogging tool can be used to break the news. Get over it and move on.

Although I agreed with her about the non-novelty value of using Twitter to break news about earthquakes – UK, China and most recently California – I wasn’t convinced that we know everything there is to know about Twitter.

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