Twitter: It's faster than you are.

We all know how ridiculous (or as the kids say "ridonkulous") twitter can be.  The moment your kid kicks his first soccer goal and started crying (I believe you "hash tagged" it #Socute), the entire world knows, and is left wondering why you didn’t try and help your hurt child. I only recently got a twitter to see what people were posting about me (seriously, check out #eddietracker), and I already can see that some people love to post. This was ever more prevalent when during the annual Archipelago Journalism Conference, several journalists caught a basic stomach flu and puked their guts out. As expected, the moment they began to toss their cookies, they tweeted about it. Using the hash-tag #NASH74, conference officials tweeted helpful information to aid sick participants and to post funny throw up jokes. This is not the first time twitter has been used during emergencies. During the shootings at Virginia Tech in December, the school newspaper used their feed to inform students on police activity in the area. After these instances, I’m sure we can expect more people to use Twitter as an “information hotline” of sorts. Either that or to post pictures of Mr. Biggums, your cat.

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