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All I really knew was that I had found the perfect place on the perfect wave, and I had remained there endlessly. Forever.
Allan Weisbecker, from In Search of Captain Zero: A Surfer’s Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road.
Twitter: daft name, extraordinary news resource – and hostage to fortune?
November 28, 2008
Blade will remain unconvinced by Twitter’s name for a long time. But he is increasingly impressed by its capabilities.
As this story in the Guardian confirms, Twitter’s “Mumbai thread provided a stream of snippets, not all accurate, from observers on the ground, with details of casualties, sieges, gunfights, and even the suspected names of terrorists.”
Elsewhere, the point is made that the blogosphere yet again beat newspaper and magazine outlets to coverage of the tragedy unfolding in Mumbai.
But is there a price to pay for the rapidity with which the Web 2.0 world moves? Although Twitter was updated faster than TV networks, let alone those antediluvian entities known as newspapers, various threads were plain wrong.
What price a libel claim, if the wrong person is accused of being a terrorist?
Image: Punit Paranjpe/Reuters.
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