Posts Tagged ‘shiphol’

26
Feb

How Twitter spreads the news on a plane crash

by dirk

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Today I was amazed by how the story about the plane crash at Schiphol evolved on the Internet. One of our colleagues was first to tell us about it, some 10 minutes after it happened. She was called by her boyfriend who works for the local TV here. The first thing I thought when I heard it was to check Twitter.

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