The 5.2 earthquake that hit Britain today was first reported via Twitter!
Inputting a hashtag before a keyword ensures that your report can be tracked by other people following the same event.
For example: #earthquake
This allows services like Hashtags.org and Twemes (see picture above) to pick up the report. On their site you can see who else is reporting on the same event!
Terraminds listing of earthquake is brilliant too.
2 Comments to “UK Earthquake First Reported on Twitter”
February 27, 2008
Same with the FL power outage yesterday — since luckily that didn’t affect cellphones.
I also was able to use Terraminds’ search function to quickly ascertain whether YouTube was just plain down the other day or was it just me. It was down, down, down.
But yes, picking hashtags is a pickle. A bunch of people were tweeting from the Computation + Journalism (a.k.a. Journalism 3G) symposium last weekend and it took us a while to arbitrarily adopt a tag that isn’t all that natural or intuitive (#journo3g). But these things spread.
March 5, 2008
howdy:
i try to regist. for a twitterreporter account but good damnit ..
i guess your spam capcha works not right .
thats sad, but sounds great of the idea behind “twitterreporter”
salut