I’m not sure what to feel about that picture. It’s quite disturbing. It looks like he just blasted 10 people with that AK-47 and now has a evil grin on his face.

This is insane… some real life 24 shit goin down. Get Jack Bauer on a jet

Nice screenshot. Can you spot which one is the asshat?

On the other hand, there’s proof of Twitter’s usefulness aside from recreational

I’m from Bombay and this is terrible. I’ve spent so much time in each one of the places hit it’s scary. This is way too close to home.

Here’s a live TV news source covering the attacks:
http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/video_streaming.php

(I think IBN is CNN’s news partner in India)

I’ve been following the news almost exclusively on Twitter, and the firsthand accounts hit home.

Reading the stream and then going to my normal Twitter feed is a strange juxtaposition, a reminder of how disconnected from tragedy we can be even as it is happening.

Some will complain that Twitter is not ‘trusted’ information – but in my personal opinion, I would rather here what real people have to say about it. I trust the people more than major media to tell it like it REALLY is…

But as always… Trust then verify! :-)

The true power of Twitter and Flickr is in providing real life experiences of events and the happenings in the world around us/them. Thank you TechCrunch for posting this. I predict that News websites as we know them will greatly change in 2009 as more and more people open Flickr and Twitter accounts and high speed internet access expands around the globe.

Respect and admiration from a loyal reader!

Adrian Eden

I don’t use it, but I remember reading that Gup Shup (Hindi equivalent of “chit chat” or “shooting the shit”) was the Indian twitter. I’m just starting to read data from their service, but it may also be a good source of real-time news from Bombay/Mumbai:

http://www.smsgupshup.com/

#Mumbai ~ 1st Tweets Timeline… http://tweetip.us/lkphd

Agreed, I would rather hear individuals’ accounts of what’s going on rather than wait for a major news source to deliver their story.

I think between the “citizen journalist” accounts paired with their pictures of actuality – the world as we once knew it is gone …

Thank God but I also wish people’s hatred changed with it….

sic

But at same time, this dude could be a member of India Special Operations (thus in plain clothes). His facial expression could be a grimace (you can’t quite tell if it’s a smile or not). Or if it is, maybe he’s smiling because another soldier just took out a terrorist out of view of the camera.

My point is you don’t know what this photo is portraying. You don’t even know if it was taken in Mumbai – it could be taken last year in a different part of the world.

As much as it is interesting to see the raw accounts and photos coming out of a situation like the awful events that are unfolding in Mumbai, it is important people don’t draw conclusions from very subjective information.

Having worked at the sharp end of online media for a few years during the rise of citizen journalism I’ve seen human error miss-interpret un-annotated raw photos from the public, I’ve also witnesses numerous accounts to subvert the media with dis-information and photoshopped photos from citizen journalists. These people ranged from pranksters to those with a vested interest (lobby groups, campaign groups, terrorist organizations etc). I wouldn’t be surprised if that can stretch to governments themselves as part of ‘dis-information’ warfare.

I’m not against Citizen Journalism – but on it’s own a single photo means nothing – it’s only in aggregate or with corroborated accounts from trusted sources can you use such media to add value to such a news story.

And of course my sympathies go out to all those effected by these awful events in India.

That’s sad.

And yeah, Twitter has proven to be a useful news tool. Better news on twitter than on the telly.

Was on twitter link used above. After about 10 secs it told me that 108 more stories were linked to the search. after that another 45. Shows you how vast twitter is becoming.

Here Wiki map of the event:

http://www.umapper.com/maps/view/id/15950/

Feel free to edit it and add more locations as things progress.

[...] news at a lightening speed,Twitter, the micro messaging service has always stood out. And the accounts of horrendous bombings in India circled the globe as people send tweets to provide minute to minute updates. [...]

Wow. Twitter has really become a beast – incredible mainstream adoption and universal ubiquity. If only they could somehow monetize or get cash for each “twit” like carriers get per text message. $0.20 a piece – haha. Of course people would stop using it immediately – but would be awesome if people still kept using a paid model.

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Ben, all true. But the tv stations are also showing this picture and saying it’s a terrorist. Same issues apply there.

Thanks Michael,

As a result of our contributors’ efforts, GroundReport has been breaking updates hours before Western mainstream media sources. See all our India coverage here:
http://www.groundreport.com/article_list.php?sortBy=latest&region=100

Many of our reporters are on the ground in India, and our thoughts and prayers are with them.

Mahalo is quite good, but BBC TV much better than anything on the net

I haven’t seen a single credible piece of information go by on Twitter that hasn’t already been reported by the mainstream media.

Visually compelling scrolling interface aside, perhaps you can provide some evidence to support your claim that it is “where the news is breaking.”

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wow another twitter push

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[...] on the role Twitter is playing in relaying first hand reports and reactions to the news include Techcrunch, and [...]

Agreed, if it wasn’t for twitter I wouldn’t have known about this.

[...] First Hand Accounts Of Terrorist Attacks In India On Twitter, Flickr (tags: twitter) [...]

Oh, I’m sure that is a terrorist. My point is not specifically about that given photo but the concept of using Flickr, Twitter, etc in general for breaking news and making assumptions based upon individual assets.

Yes the same issues do apply to the mainstream news media. But while we, the people, are best placed to share media with each other, the news outlets are better placed to corroborated information from are seeing the aggregate and can back up with trusted sources such as their own journalists.

Point is you need media (pics, on the ground accounts, etc) to be distributed AND you need corroboration. That’s why mainstream media isn’t dead nor is grassroots media not a valid concept. It’s the balance of both.

[...] 2008 Posted by John Furrier in social media. Tags: Mumbai India, Terrorism, twitter trackback Terrorists are killing people at western hotels in Mumbai India of what people are calling the Mumbai attacks. This is real time and being captured on [...]

“Fortunately” there are still terrorists. Without, we would have to care about the real problems in the world, which are the financial crisis, the wars, the hunger, the diseases, the pollution.

Cynic, but true. Sadly.

Might we see a sort of hybrid model? an extremely large network of citizen journalists who get ranked for their truthiness?

If someone kills your family — it is a “real” problem…no? Ass.

Twitter has been successful in distributing the news and alerts much more than that of CNN or any news station in India, like IBN or NDTV, solely because its aggregating information from all places.

Numerous TV stations information are filtering into the Mumbai timeline, and primary sources of the issue are coming in. It really is terrific.

Hey, the TV says it’s true.

people are getting killed and it so important to discuss where the news came from

[...] in Mumbai, India have been in the news over the past hour or so but, as TechCrunch points out the news sources are not the only place to get [...]

Sree Sreenavsian, Dean of Columbia School of Journalism hosted a live broadcast on BlogTalkRadio http://www.blogtalkradio.com/saja

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Here’s pic of of terrorists. They look like any college going kid

http://maharashtratimes.indiatimes.com/articleshowpics/3762109.cms

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Over 50000 Hindus dead in Kashmir.
Another 50000 Hindus dead all over India.

Attach on Indian Parliament..
Then 7/11/2007 in Mumbai..

Now 11/26/2008 again in Mumbai..

Will the USA stop India from invading Pakistan and getting rid of all Jehadi Terrorists ?
USA has no moral right to stop India now…

We all know Pakistan is clearly the Largest sponsor of terror…

I fail to understand why USA still supports Pakistan?

Just give the green signal and the brave Indian army will clean up all Jehadis and crazy terrorists from the world..

But unfortunately USA will not allow India to do anything..

Indian politicians will issue a statement that the Soul of Mumbai cannot be broken..

Indian army will sit like eununch because USA will not allow India to do anything on the Paki terror camps..

What a shame !!! USA stop interfering in Indian affairs and allow India to deal with this on their own…

Over 50000 Hindus dead in Kashmir.
Another 50000 Hindus dead all over India.

Attack on Indian Parliament..
Then 7/11/2007 in Mumbai..

Now 11/26/2008 again in Mumbai..

Will the USA stop India from invading Pakistan and getting rid of all Jehadi Terrorists ?
USA has no moral right to stop India now…

We all know Pakistan is clearly the Largest sponsor of terror…

I fail to understand why USA still supports Pakistan?

Just give the green signal and the brave Indian army will clean up all Jehadis and crazy terrorists from the world..

But unfortunately USA will not allow India to do anything..

Indian politicians will issue a statement that the Soul of Mumbai cannot be broken..

Indian army will sit like eununch because USA will not allow India to do anything on the Paki terror camps..

What a shame !!! USA stop interfering in Indian affairs and allow India to deal with this on their own…

Great update. However, dear Techcrunch readers do not forget about what bloggers are doing at GVO

[...] Techcrunch Forget CNN, which so far has few details of the ongoing attacks in Mumbai, India that have left at [...]

That’s a picture of Big Foot.

I’m with you on that one. Very sad how disconnected we are…

Here’s a roundup of citizen journalism/ social media coverage of the Mumbai terrorist attacks: http://www.gauravonomics.com/blog/real-time-citizen-journalism-in-mumbai-terrorist-attacks/

Yeah, then we have a problem with curry people all over the world Sunny. Stop blaming USA

Terrible news. Its really amazing that the news was all over the world within the hour of it happening via all channels. Bunch of my FB friend status pointed to it as well.

Ben, I wish I could digg your comments up. :)

Don’t worry. With Barack Obama as President, he will attack Pakistan from the West, and if anything India can join in the from the East for a real party thats been waiting years, if not decades to happen.

This photo is not taken from Flickr or any other social media sites. This is a cam pic which was initially posted by Times of India portal stating that he is a terrorist. Also special forces without the uniform may not carry automatic weapons – they will be carrying pistols. Also this guy is too young to be one. See some of the other pics here (The language is Marathi)
http://maharashtratimes.indiatimes.com/articleshowpics/3762109.cms

Love the shameless plug for Twitter.
What is interesting that no one here mentioned that most Indian TV stations have been broadcasting live on the web since 9:45pm IST Wednesday…

[...] However, these days, that’s not always the case.  As terrorism continues around the world Techcrunch reports that Twitter has become a near real-time forum for updates on violence.  With nearly everyone [...]

[...] the day, using Twitter and blog search and Wikipedia and Flickr and YouTube and pretty much any other tool I can get my hands on. Sites like Global Voices — the excellent blog network set up by Ethan [...]

Bob: Both Twitter and TV stations have their own uses. But you can’t beat the massive real-time coverage from citizen journalists, while being given an opportunity to directly CONTACT people in these areas … and where do you think TV stations get news from? Citizens.

[...] were viewed. For example, when I clicked the ‘Fast Forward’ button while reading about Twitter users reporting on the terror attacks in India, the service directed me towards the latest CNN coverage on today’s atrocities, as this was [...]

Indian govt is asking TWITTER to stop searches on MUMBAI

Just a request from my Indian friends. Please avoid yourself from posting hateful messages against any country whethar USA or Pakistan. this is much more complex than US allowing India to attack on Pakistan. Guys, please!

[...] the significance of social media and web 2.0 for tracking a real-world crisis.  As Mike Arrington correctly points out the most up-to-date and accurate information about today’s terror attacks in India came from [...]

Yes that picture is of terrorist no doubt,this picture appeared in Times of India.This is really sad that terrorists are targeting major parts of Indian country.

Where are the first hand accounts? All I see is a bunch of tweets from people repeating what they heard….

Not blaming USA..

Just saying USA should mind their own business. With one incident USA is free to attach Afghanishtan..

What about India’s right to attack Terrorists be it in any country?

And no India does not need USA to take care of Terrorists..

And Johmn US needs curry people not vice versa…

Rakesh and others, thanks for the reference to ibn and other live sources of news. CNN was stagnant with the same info and even made some stupid errors like refering to the Taj Mahal when it’s the Taj hotel. Big difference.

This is scary and horrible. 100 people died and over 300 injured.

Citizen journalists in a terror situation? Scary. Very scary. And folks like Arrington would goad this to its extreme end. Sad.

[...] (6:30 am India time): Several technology blogs — including Techmeme, TechCrunch, 140 Chars and Amy Gahran — are writing posts on the role of Twitter in the reporting on the [...]

ooohhhh …. where is my nation going … I cant bear it … !!! I CANT BEAR IT !!!!

This is scary but i think its fantastic that the news is getting out way before the media can manipulate it. Every one will have different views of what went down, but i’ll take the word of a citizen than any media network.

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Way to go plugging in your website for traffic to go to.. stop being so full of yourself dude..

[...] 2.0 & mobile applications tracking the Mumbai attacks in real time along with the aftermath. Twitter was apparently faster than CNN in reporting the initial events, according to [...]

[...] is turning out to be a great tool to get the latest breaking news. Much faster than media sites. TechCrunch has an article on this [...]

Once again, Another wake up call for everyone…

Live update from Twitter about Mumbai attacks – Fast, breaking news and no need to refresh page.
http://ninhnv.com/breakingnews/

Terrorists should be killed and given a painful death

What is your point? Your posts are getting really sloppy with little to no substance. You want to get people’s attention send rich media.

Happy Holidays!

I agree, it is terrible what’s happening. But we are ‘fed’ information that we’re ‘supposed’ to see, and ‘interpretations’ we’re ‘supposed’ to make.

Don’t take anything at face value. Too many ‘illusions’ being created these days.

Pete.

what in the world is going on? Why innocent people are slaughtered in such an awful way.This is an act of pure evil my condeleces to the families of those innocent lives. My heart goes out to you.
mapule in SA

Wished they would have used Bambuser.com so we could have gotten some live fotage out

a real bad news for india

mate its his blog he’ll write whatever the hell he wants.

not happy with that? tough titties bitch.

click my name and go indulge yourself, its the closest to human contact an asshat like you will ever get.

[...] we saw yet another illustration, when people in Mumbai got the word of terrorist attacks out to the world well before mainstream media even knew something was happening. Mathew Ingram points out previous [...]

[...] Meedia folgert schon: “Twitter & Flickr schlagen CNN”: Bevor die ersten Horror-Meldungen, als Breakingnews die großen Nachrichten-Networks erreichten, ging die Nachricht bereits wie ein Lauffeuer durch den Mircroblogging-Dienst Twitter.” Der Autor bemerkt aber auch: “Andererseits zeigt vor allem ein Blick auf Twitter, dass es bei der aktuellen Geschwindigkeit, in der Kurz-Postings zum Thema veröffentlicht werden, schlicht unmöglich ist, die Echtheit und Relevanz einer Information zu prüfen. Die Nachrichten sind roh.” Diskussion darüber auch bei Techcrunch. [...]

[...] Today we saw yet another illustration, when people in Mumbai got the word of terrorist attacks out to the world well before mainstream media even knew something was happening. Mathew Ingram points out previous [...]

It’s not Twitter itself doing a good job it’s the people who are using it. Could just as well be another micro blogging service it just happens Twitter is the market leader. Also how can one ever expect solid facts coming from Twitter if it is ordinary people like you an me feeding Twitter with news?

Hostages who were rescued from being trapped in the hotels have said that the terrorists were asking for foreigners who held British/American passports…..they were definitely targeting foreign nationals…..

He is a terrerist and he has been killed by indian commandos.

If you want to stop terrorism, all the people from Pakistan and related countries should be killed, then the world will live happily.

Other British guests described the moment their hotels were stormed. Alan Jones, a businessman from south Wales, was in a lift at the Oberoi Trident when a fellow occupant was shot. There were frantic scenes as he tried to pull the man back in to close the door.

Alex Chamberlain, who works for a sports website and was in the city on business, told Sky News he believed the gunmen were looking for British and American visitors.

“They told everybody to stop and put their hands up and asked if there were any British or Americans. My friend said to me, ‘Don’t be a hero, don’t say you are British.’”

Other British guests described the moment their hotels were stormed. Alan Jones, a businessman from south Wales, was in a lift at the Oberoi Trident when a fellow occupant was shot. There were frantic scenes as he tried to pull the man back in to close the door.

Alex Chamberlain, who works for a sports website and was in the city on business, told Sky News he believed the gunmen were looking for British and American visitors.

“They told everybody to stop and put their hands up and asked if there were any British or Americans. My friend said to me, ‘Don’t be a hero, don’t say you are British.’”

source : guardian.co.uk

Other British guests described the moment their hotels were stormed. Alan Jones, a businessman from south Wales, was in a lift at the Oberoi Trident when a fellow occupant was shot. There were frantic scenes as he tried to pull the man back in to close the door.

Alex Chamberlain, who works for a sports website and was in the city on business, told Sky News he believed the gunmen were looking for British and American visitors.

“They told everybody to stop and put their hands up and asked if there were any British or Americans. My friend said to me, ‘Don’t be a hero, don’t say you are British.’”

source : guardian.co.uk

I’m pretty sure that your loved ones being ruthlessly murdered for nothing more than hatred of a system that they do not control IS a real problem, too.

Please pray for my missing family at the Chabad of Mumbai.

Agreed, Sunny. The USA and EU interfere too much with issues that are not their own.

source?

CNN produced really great high quality ‘LIVE’ updates regarding this tragedy.

The Indian PM suggested that external forces are responsible.

HMMM….

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Twitter is doing good services, alerting people by give the right updates which can save some lives.

[...] TechCrunch is pointing out how Twitter and Flickr are provided first hand accounts of the terrorist attacks that took place in Mumbai, India.  Yes, there is a quick screen shot of comments and a picture taken by someone who was a witness to the attacks. [...]

[...] more thoughts, Mathew Ingram has a post on Twitter being a source of journalism. TechCrunch has a post listing some of the Tweets from the [...]

The style is different but the end is same. Big powers trying to trap Pakistan and now playing this game that they can push Pakistan from both sides and declare it as a terrorist state. The same thing happened in 9/11 for Afghanistan and this time its Pakistan.

[...] Added ## Just found this article resource Mumbai & citizen journalism on TechCrunch. Via “Matthew Ingram’s > Yes, Twitter is a source of journalism” article. [...]

The tragedy has struck India. These kind of attacks in fact have been faced by India since times immemorial. India and the whole world has to rise above their differences and take up the fight to finish these terrorists.

[...] TechCrunch pointed out that the tragedy in Mumbai yesterday was first reported – and firsthand – by those using Twitter in India, well before the mainstream media figured it out. Posted: 27 [...]

See where these terrorists struck in Mumbai. Map

Jac many Indians have also been killed. Terrorism does not distinguishes amongst Indian, American and Britishers.

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[...] tech blogs like TechCrunch & GiagaOm remain untouched by this horrified [...]

IndiBlogger.in | Bloggers from Mumbai speak out against the attacks.

Why are you changing the topic?

[...] crowd-sourced last minute fundraisers to the quick dissemination of news about the terrorist attacks in Mumabi, Twitter is certainly proving its worth this Thanksgiving [...]

[...] parlano Amy Garhan e gli aggregati di Michael Arrington con testimonianze dal web, ne parlano gli utenti di Twitter, gli stessi che postano le immagini su [...]

whats the best budget hotel in Mumbai ?

i m very much happy what is happen n india and sure ishaallah we will continue same thing till we alive.

Pls awake for our next blast n m…………………… , r……………………………..,a…………………………..g……………………………

[...] again yesterday with the events in Mumbai. Twitter users in the area were using the site to provide first-hand accounts and updates of what they saw. Again, with a breaking story like this, CNN was all over the place [...]

[...] após as primeiras informações sobre o ataque em Mumbai terem começado a circular pelo Twitter, o Mahalo colocou no ar uma [...]

[...] Techcrunch [...]

[...] das bisher nur wenige Details der laufenden Anschläge in Mumbai geliefert haben” schrieb Techcrunch am gestrigen Mittwoch Abend, dem Tag der terroristischen Anschläge im indischen Mumbai. Denn [...]

Is there a way to know this guy’g IP? how can people like killing civilians?

All of us are very innocent…

By disturbing the whole region our old lords are planning to come back and rule on us. You remember this region was under british rule few decades back. We must not fight with each other and resolve our differences mutually.

Now they can put this on record that niether Afghanistan nor India and Pakistan are capable of handling terrorist so they should be given chance to handle this situation.

I strongly condemn such attacks which result in more poverty in disturbance in our region. I condole all those who lost their lives.

[...] the day, using Twitter and blog search and Wikipedia and Flickr and YouTube and pretty much any other tool I can get my hands on. Sites like Global Voices — the excellent blog network set up by Ethan [...]

[...] the day, using Twitter and blog search and Wikipedia and Flickr and YouTube and pretty much any other tool I can get my hands on. Sites like Global Voices — the excellent blog network set up by Ethan [...]

[...] the day, using Twitter and blog search and Wikipedia and Flickr and YouTube and pretty much any other tool I can get my hands on. Sites like Global Voices — the excellent blog network set up by Ethan [...]

Ben,

You seem to be a typical terrorist lover trying to confuse the issue. This SOB shot at crowd of thousands in a crowded train station many at point blank range and hence the crud/blood on his face.

Since you seem to be so worried about disinformation chew on this. What is common between NY Times, CNN, and Fox News ?

Wahhabi Saudis the same guys who funded the Mubai terror.
All these news sources have been heavily funded(in billions) and owned at least 5% by the Wahhabi Saudis. Look up just one name Bin Tala Al Saud the same guy who gave Rudy a $10 M dollar check, and he also gave $20M to Harvard, Georgetown, and Columbia. Most Guntanamo law firms seem to be doing about $25-$30M a year in business with his shell companies.

So don’t make snide comments mixing terrorist with a people laying their lives to protect our kith and kin.

I just wonder who is funding you and your disinformation ? Saudis …

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[...] soprattutto l’accuratezza e la velocità della pagina dedicata agli eventi da Wikipedia. TechCrunch afferma chiaramente che: Twitter isn’t the place for solid facts yet – the situation is way too [...]

[...] Arrington of TechCrunch wrote about it on Wednesday, and he has a nice screenshot in the post to show you what it looked like then. Flickr [...]

[...] “Vergessen Sie CNN” meinte gar Michael Arrington in seinem Artikel auf TechCrunch (mehr…). Selbst CNN gibt unlängst zu: “Es war der Tag, an dem Social Media erwachsen wurde und sich als eine mächtige News-Aggregation hervor tat, mit der man rechnen muss.” Doch beileibe nicht alle denken so. Einer der schärfsten Twitter-Kritiker ist Tom. Dieser hatte auf dem Blog tomstechblog.com seiner Entrüstung über die Behauptung Michael Arringtons Ausdruck verliehen, Twitter sei nun “der Ort an dem die neuesten Nachrichten verbreitet werden”. [...]

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[...] tweets. This unleashed a flood of comments …. some about the “future of media”.  TechCrunch posted the tweets and an ominous photo. This unleashed a flood of comments about what the photo showed. In [...]

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[...] First Hand Accounts Of Terrorist Attacks In India On Twitter, Flickr [...]

[...] news is niet langer het domein van journalisten. Dat bleek weer eens zeer duidelijk met de tweet- en flickrgolf na de aanslag in Mumbai (oftewel Bombay voor de oudjes onder [...]

[...] for quick shots of information funneled to one source.  Now it may be facing another evolution as Twitter showed what it can do during the Mumbai attacks. November 30th, 2008 at 9:55 am | Tags: [...]

[...] the Mumbai attacks cannot be over-stressed. As noted in other outlets, the use of applications like Twitter and Flickr to provide real-time coverage is simply fantastic. Individuals and their gadgets beat traditional media and, dare I suggest it, [...]

[...] post, “First Hand Accounts Of Terrorist Attacks In India On Twitter, Flickr,” Arrington writes: Forget CNN, which so far has few details of the ongoing attacks in Mumbai, India that have left at [...]

[...] checked out photos on Flickr from the scene.  Recently many bloggers and news agencies have been touting social media’s role in covering the tragic events.  Twitter often broke news before [...]

[...] we saw yet another illustration, when people in Mumbai got the word of terrorist attacks out to the world well before mainstream media even knew something was happening. Mathew Ingram points out previous [...]

Ajay,

Grow up Dude. From your comments, you are too immature to even understand what Ben was talking about.

Saudi Wahhabis LOL. Grow up Kid.

[...] nota o TechCrunch, assim como em Santa Catarina, os relatos no Twitter ultrapassaram a necessidade de organização [...]

[...] social media played a part in helping –and hurting– the event. First hand accounts were published on twitter, including pictures of terrorists in action, in fact Forbes called this Mumbai: Twitter’s Moment. Cities, authorities, states, and [...]

[...] any longer that we are using it. Techcrunch, however, finds it noteworthy that news of Mumbai first broke on Twitter. So maybe it is not quite banal yet, but how long will this remain to be [...]

[...] some observers of evolving media, every unfortunate newsworthy tragedy is primarily a test for the platform de [...]

[...] some observers of evolving media, every unfortunate newsworthy tragedy is primarily a test for the platform de [...]

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3ull5hit.. the count u said must be many times more .. not hindus but muslims..

[...] December 4, 2008 in BBC, Web 2.0, broadcast, journalism, trustTags: Twitter, Mumbai There has been plenty of discussion about the role of Twitter during the Mumbai attacks. The stream of tweets were seen by some as evidence that Twitter is where news is breaking. [...]

[...] watching, social media played a part in helping –and hurting– the event. First hand accounts were published on twitter, including pictures of terrorists in action, in fact Forbes called this Mumbai: Twitter’s Moment. Cities, authorities, states, and [...]

[...] There has been plenty of discussion about the role of Twitter during the Mumbai attacks. The stream of tweets were seen by some as evidence that Twitter is where news is breaking. [...]

Michael,

Thank you for the mention in “Tech Crunch” and “Digital Inspiration” regarding the use of Twitter during the attacks on Mumbai.

Someone had sent me a Tweet from the ground at the scene in Mumbai and was upset because no one was covering the story, so I started — from Florida.

At first, my sources were from witnesses at the scene, then I started getting pleas for help from guests in the Taj. In a short time businesses and families around the world were asking for help in finding their employees and relatives.

Because I wasn’t certain of the veracity of some of the requests I needed to verify them via Google search before I responded to the Tweets ( my own version of Snopes). While communicating with frantic hotel guests who wanted their names and hotel room numbers made public I didn’t reveal that information for their own safety. I was able to tweet back to employees and families that the people they were looking for were either not in the hotel at the time, or were in the hotel taking cover.

With the speed of Twitter I was able to receive a message, search it out and verify it, and then send out my response on an average of one tweet every 30 seconds.

Some of my Tweets were sent directly to Mumbaikars who had gone to sleep the night before and would have been unaware of the ongoing slaughter. Those Tweets alerted them to stay in their homes with the doors locked because there were terrorists still running around in a stolen police van, and that all schools were closed so stay home.

Also, Twitter enabled me to tweet the photo of one of the terrorists they were trying to identify, the license plate numbers of the stolen vehicles, as well as blood donation requests from St. Georges and J.J. hospitals.

Unfortunately many hours of my tweets did not include #mumbai in the message which would have enabled me to communicate with an even greater population.

However, during my 17-hour Mumbai tweeting session, TWITTER SHUT ME DOWN twice (an hour each time) for my excessive use. I was unable to Direct Message or Reply to anyone anywhere! Those two hours were critical during a disaster that was still fluid. That sort of situation with Twitter needs to be fixed immediately in case a situation like this tragedy happens again. Well, when is happens again somewhere in the world.

My journalism career has included both print and broadcast news, but nothing addresses the immediacy of the breaking news like Twitter.

At this point I don’t think we can under estimate Twitter’s value. Thank you for your great work, aeropolowoman

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If India allowed citizens to have and carry firearms, a smaller amount of people would have died. It is terrible what happened to those people. India is such a great and strong country.
Kel

i think that Pakistan is responsibal for every thing and we should talk to Pakistan abut it

i think we all should have solidayryti in are life in India also in have so much coreption

[...] moet toegeven dat de dienst ook z’n interessante kanten heeft, zoals de live verslaggeving over de aanslagen in Mumbai afgelopen week. En ik weet nu tenminste hoe het werkt.Vervolgens downloade ik een handige gepimpte [...]

my mother has told to hang on roop

[...] First Hand Accounts Of Terrorist Attacks In India On Twitter, FlickrForget CNN, which so far has few details of the ongoing attacks in Mumbai, India that have left at least 80 dead (Update: they’re starting to catch up now). People are giving first hand reports of what they’re seeing directly on Twitter . [...]

[...] social media was used during the Mumbai attacks was covered by the Guardian News, InformationWeek, TechCrunch, sr_adspace_id = 5643807; sr_adspace_width = 250; sr_adspace_height = 250; sr_adspace_type = [...]

[...] mempelopori penyampaian informasi tentang peristiwa di Mumbai. Perannya, menurut Techcrunch, bahkan mendominasi keberadaan media arus-utama saat itu. Blogger kawakan Mathe Wingram, yang juga redaktur media arus-utama Kanada, [...]

[...] dort durch eine besondere Geschwindigkeit auszeichnet. Das Weblog TechCrunchIT schreibt (mehrfach), dass gestandene Nachrichten-Medien wie CNN zunächst ungewöhnlich langsam über die Anschläge in [...]

[...] the last several months, nearly every major news event – from earthquakes to the Mumbai attacks to plane crashes – Twitter was first to report what was going on, by people [...]

[...] en utrolig bra plattform for å melde om hendelser i hele verden, og ikke minst å få det med seg. Det samme skjedde under angrepet i Mumbai. Først på [...]

[...] the Mumbai attacks. The stream of tweets were seen by some as evidence that Twitter is where news is breaking. This poses a dilemma for established news organisations that traditionally have been the ones to [...]

[...] gepostet und die Welt reagiert darauf. Vor allem politische Geschehnisse wie die neuerlichen Angriffe im Indischen Mumbay wurden haarklein von Augenzeugen bei Twitter beschrieben. Ebenso gibt es derzeit Feed vom [...]

[...] Mumbai terror attacks — Citizens captured the horror of terrorism in real time. #Mumbai became allowed for incredible insight into this event. [...]

[...] Aggregators – ie  Medlogs Blog swarms or mob blogs Group blogs – ie Consumerist Photoblogs – ie Photoblogs.org or Best of 2008 Photoblogs (Smashing Magazine) Vlogs – ie YouTube, Kyte.tv, 12seconds.tv, and Brothers 2.0 Microblogging – ie Twitter and how it was used in Mumbai [...]

[...] אירועים קריטיים, כמו רעידות אדמה ומתקפות טרור, גולשים השתמשו בטוויטר על מנת לדווח על המתרחש. יצרו [...]

[...] världen över har fått Twitter att snabbt svämma över av rapporteringar direkt från platsen. Terroristattackerna i Indien, flygplanet på Hudson-floden och rättegången mot The Pirate Bay är tre bra exempel på hur [...]

[...] it’s name during the Kuwaiti war in 1991, so Twitter showed during the terrorist attacks in Mumbai that it is the new ‘media’ force to be [...]

[...] at the moment in both print and broadcast media. The terrorist attacks on Mumbai in November was covered widely, as was the online campaign backing up the Israeli attack on Gaza; even well known technology [...]

Speaking of terrorism:

George W. Bush committed hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism (indicated in my blog).

George W. Bush did in fact commit innumerable hate crimes.

And I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed other hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention.

Many people know what Bush did.

And many people will know what Bush did—even to the end of the world.

Bush was absolute evil.

Bush is now like a fugitive from justice.

Bush is a psychological prisoner.

Bush has a lot to worry about.

Bush can technically be prosecuted for hate crimes at any time.

In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy.

Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993

“GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY” BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG
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I am not sure where I had read it before, but anyway, it is a linguistically excellent statement, and it goes kind of like this: “If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memory so it never got stale and faded.” Oh wait—off of the top of my head—I think the quotation came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.

[...] übermittelt werden könnten. Denn egal ob der Absturz des Fluges 1549 der US Airways oder die Attacke mit terroistischem Hintergrund auf Bombay, über twitter kommen die minutenaktuellen Nachrichten. Wer abends die Tagesschau sieht, dürfte in [...]

[...] to an event. Microblogging services like Tweeter report of breaking news such plane crashes and terrorist attacks in real-time and ahead of the news media as users post text and pictures from their mobile [...]

[...] unexpected landing outside of an airport in Amsterdam, and provided firsthand reports of the Mumbai terrorist attacks in November 2008. In April 2008, Berkeley student James Buck was arrested at a protest in Egypt, he [...]

[...] the last several months, nearly every major news event – from earthquakes to the Mumbai attacks to plane crashes - Twitter was first to report what was going on, by people [...]

we should not take any FIR on terrorism . we should shoot of them on the spot

[...] disagree with Mathew Ingram. I did not use Twitter, blog search, Wikipedia, YouTube and pretty much any other tool I could get my hands on to source news about the tragic events in Mumbai. I resorted to  my [...]

[...] brain.  It’s also how information moves through twitter.  It’s why information on the Mumbai terrorist attacks spread around the world in just a few minutes after people started twittering about them.  In fact [...]

[...] Google are rumored acquirers.  Inaugurations and political conversations are changed.  Terrorist attacks are reported first through twitter.  Sully’s downed plane was twittered.  [...]

[...] You can find rave after rave about how we learned about the plane landing in the Hudson or the Mumbai crisis from Twitter before the news networks had full reports on what was happening. So what. Unless you [...]

Agreed, if it wasn’t for twitter I wouldn’t have known about this.

cool tits

[...] the generic use of things like Twitter to get the word out fast about an earthquake or some other life-threatening event. But then again there aren’t that many aiming for the extreme niche of mountain rescue teams. [...]

[...] the generic use of things like Twitter to get the word out fast about an earthquake or some other life-threatening event. But then again there aren’t that many aiming for the extreme niche of mountain rescue teams. [...]

[...] the generic use of things like Twitter to get the word out fast about an earthquake or some other life-threatening event. But then again there aren’t that many aiming for the extreme niche of mountain rescue teams. [...]

[...] the generic use of things like Twitter to get the word out fast about an earthquake or some other life-threatening event. But then again there aren’t that many aiming for the extreme niche of mountain rescue teams. [...]

[...] the generic use of things like Twitter to get the word out fast about an earthquake or some other life-threatening event. But then again there aren’t that many aiming for the extreme niche of mountain rescue teams. [...]

[...] of things same Twitter to intend the word discover alacritous most an seism or whatever another life-threatening event. But then again there aren’t that whatever aiming for the extremity status of elevation [...]

[...] may very well mark the day that Twitter was officially born. Twitter, not CNN or The BBC, was the first source of media to break the story. Eye witness reports including names of those who had been killed or injured as well as hospital [...]

[...] the generic use of things like Twitter to get the word out fast about an earthquake or some other life-threatening event. But then again there aren’t that many aiming for the extreme niche of mountain rescue teams. But [...]

[...] are many examples of Twitter being at the forefront of providing updates on breaking news, in so far as [...]

[...] the world during a crisis.  During last year’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai, people were giving updates on Twitter about where the attackers were, what was destroyed and other details about the events as they [...]

[...] on every imaginable topic.  Increasingly this discussion is visible through social networks like Flickr, Youtube, twitter and [...]

[...] fruit-fly years). Twitter’s first big international real-time news-reporting event was the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, and that was in November – eons ago in Internet time. Since then it has contributed real [...]

[...] A new breed of reporter. Barrack Obama’s presidential campaign, terror attacks in Mumbai, Iran’s twitter revolution, MichaelJackson’s death. Twitter’s been a focal point [...]

[...] de eventos como el aterrizaje en el río Hudson del vuelo de US Air, los ataques terroristas en Bombay, la crisis política en Honduras, las elecciones en Irán, o más recientemente, la muerte de [...]

[...] in social media // Over the past year, I’ve spoken at numerous conferences on how social media is impacting emergency preparedness and response. Often cited are the examples of where information was spread rapidly. One of the most frequently mentioned cases were the live updates about Terrorism in Mumbai spread through Twitter. [...]

[...] världen över har fått Twitter att snabbt svämma över av rapporteringar direkt från platsen. Terroristattackerna i Indien, flygplanet på Hudson-floden och rättegången mot The Pirate Bay är tre bra exempel på hur [...]

[...] doesn’t like Twitter as much as other social media, but there is always some news for the wrong reasons. Times of India says – The Congress on Wednesday said minister of state for external affairs Shashi [...]

[...] TechCrunch lauded the tweets in its initial update post but a majority of commenters were of different opinion. One wrote, [...]

[...] Related TechCrunch article shows twitterstream during attack [...]

seriously… it was all over tv and the net.

[...] the last several months, nearly every major news event – from earthquakes to the Mumbai attacks to plane crashes – Twitter was first to report what was going on, by people [...]

[...] information. To be in the right place at the right time, sitting in the warmth of your own home. Mumbai terrorist attack was all the time covered by the information through social networks Twitter and [...]

[...] by the personnel inside the hotel and all around the locations where terrorist attacks.Look at a snapshot of twitter during Mumbai Terror [...]

[...] First Hand Accounts of Terrorist Attacks in India on Twitter and Flickr. （http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/26/first-hand-accounts-of-terrorist-attacks-in-india-on-twitter/）　　[4] Social Media Takes Center Stage in Iran. [...]

[...] [3] First Hand Accounts of Terrorist Attacks in India on Twitter and Flickr. （http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/26/first-hand-accounts-of-terrorist-attacks-in-india-on-twitter/） [4] Social Media Takes Center Stage in Iran. [...]

[...] [3] First Hand Accounts of Terrorist Attacks in India on Twitter and Flickr. （http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/26/first-hand-accounts-of-terrorist-attacks-in-india-on-twitter/） [4] Social Media Takes Center Stage in Iran. [...]

[...] First Hand Accounts of Terrorist Attacks in India on Twitter and Flickr. （http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/26/first-hand-accounts-of-terrorist-attacks-in-india-on-twitter/）[4] Social Media Takes Center Stage in Iran. [...]

[...] [3] First Hand Accounts of Terrorist Attacks in India on Twitter and Flickr. （http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/26/first-hand-accounts-of-terrorist-attacks-in-india-on-twitter/） [4] Social Media Takes Center Stage in Iran. [...]

Terrible news. Its really amazing that the news was all over the world within the hour of it happening via all channels.

thx for you admin…