Comments on: China Earthquake news may help Twitter go mainstream http://www.robbmontgomery.com/2008/05/china-earthquake-news-may-help-twitter-go-mainstream/ Newspaper design, visual journalism, and documentary video Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:18:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Brad King http://www.robbmontgomery.com/2008/05/china-earthquake-news-may-help-twitter-go-mainstream/#comment-23433 Brad King Thu, 15 May 2008 21:30:47 +0000 http://www.robbmontgomery.com/home/2008/newspaper/design/05/china-earthquake-news-may-help-twitter-go-mainstream/#comment-23433 FWIW, you should check out Smart Mobs, a book by Howard Rheingold about the history of texts. We're (the US) about 3-5 years behind what is happening overseas. We've been ahead of the curve before, but mobile technologies have befuddled us a bit. There are countless stories about Twitter -- the California wildfires brought Twitter attention in the States; the China earthquake was interesting because people were actually counting the minutes from the time the Twitterverse found out about it and the story hit the mainstream. FWIW, you should check out Smart Mobs, a book by Howard Rheingold about the history of texts. We’re (the US) about 3-5 years behind what is happening overseas. We’ve been ahead of the curve before, but mobile technologies have befuddled us a bit.

There are countless stories about Twitter — the California wildfires brought Twitter attention in the States; the China earthquake was interesting because people were actually counting the minutes from the time the Twitterverse found out about it and the story hit the mainstream.

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