When Twitter Becomes Your First Instinct

On December 20th, a Continental flight slid off the runway mid-take off. There were some minor injuries, and of course, the whole thing made the news.
What’s different about this crash however, was the fact that Mike Wilson live-tweeted the whole thing.

Wilson has since been interviewed on several mainstream media stations including NBC, Fox News, and more. A Google search for “denver plane crash + Twitter” yielded more than 22,000 results.
It looks to me like 2008 was the year that Twitter started to go mainstream. It’s becomming the go-to for many for breaking news – the Denver crash was reported on …read more