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Breaking news can up your follower count!

January 16, 2009 By 3 Comments

Interesting to see the increase in followers that @jkrums got yesterday. He was allegedly the first to post pictures of yesterday’s Hudson River plane crash, and a massive 1949 of you decided to follow him – followed by another 132 today at the time of writing.

Stats from the fantastic TwitterCounter.

Update: Rory Cellan-Jones has posted more about this story, and how twitter is changing the way journalists report here.

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Comments

  1. Wayne Smallman says:
    January 16, 2009 at 12:18 pm

    The thing that concerned me (which I Twittered at the time) was the number of people talking about the “kewl” factor of how Twitter was beating traditional media to the news.

    Yes, it’s intriguing, but I was seeing comments along the lines of: “Wow! Great photos of Hudson plain crash on TwitPics [url]” and: “Who needs CNN when you’ve got Twitter?”

    I have to question the medium when it’s little more than a technological syringe for people to deliver their news fix…

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