Hudson River Plane Crash Shows the Speed of Social Media
Less than two hours ago a plane crashed into the Hudson River in New York City. And if you don’t know about it then you must not: 1) watch a news channel or website or 2) take part in social networks/social media. Within minutes of the plane crash the news spread across the world like wildfire as hundrends if not thousands of people posted what happened to their Twitter feeds.
One man in particular by the name Janis Krum, took a photo of the plane crash, from the ferry that was rescuing people, with his iPhone and then posted it to Twitter using a service called Twitpic. Shortly there after the photo began making its way across the interwebs and eventually crossed the eyes of the major news companies, and within thirty minutes of taking the photo Janis Krum was being interviewed by MSNBC.
Its times like this that show just how fast news of something happening can spread across the world. And with technology like the iPhone, cellphone internet (3G I’m sure), Twitter and Twitpic its possible that someone who is on the scene can show what is happening to the world before a news station can do the same.
