Twitter had a shining moment amid a terrible tragedy in Schiphol this morning as a Turkish Airlines plane crashed at the Amsterdam airport. Tweets began appearing about the crash a full 15 minutes before the BBC broke the story.
“Schiphol” rose to the top of TwitScoop.com within minutes of the crash. I quickly navigated over to TwitterFall.com (like many other users I saw blogging on twitter) to watch the action unfold. Many tweets and pictures like the one above are still being posted by people on the scene.
Twitter may well change the way some of us receive our breaking news (head of everyone else). Is this what CNN was hoping for with Ireporters?
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