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China Earthquake news may help Twitter go mainstream

The world had real-time news about China’s massive earthquake as victims dashed out “twitter” text messages while it took place, in what was being touted Tuesday as micro-blogging outshining mainstream news.

That is the lead of Glenn Chapman’s China Earthquake report for AFP.

Twitter is being used by more media groups both as a channel to distribute breaking news alerts as well as as a way to monitor fluid news events like disasters and elections.

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