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Denver Plane-Crash Survivor Twitters From Burning Aircraft
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by politisite | December 22, 2008 at 09:51 am
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Talk about Breaking news! Mike Wilson a software engineer Twitters, "I have just been in a plane crash" That is On scene reporting!
An American software engineer appears to have raised the bar on real-time citizen-journalism after the Boeing 737-500 he was traveling on careened off the runway on take-off at Denver International Airport Saturday.
As flames engulfed the plane, Mike Wilson sent his first Tweet even before managing to get off the aircraft, alerting his friends and family to the drama: "Holy f***ing s*** I was just in a plane crash!"
It was the first of 30 messages Wilson sent to the popular microblogging service, initially via text message and then, when he got home later that night, via the Web. Each message is a maximum of 140 characters long.
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at 10:41 on December 22nd, 2008
I think both Twitter and Flickr were very widely used during the Mumbai terrorist attack. In 2009, Twitter will become more important for quick on the spot news!
at 19:01 on January 1st, 2009
I hope he wasn't in an aisle seat twittering while the folks beside him were trying to get out. Next time, get off the aircraft before you become the news instead of being able to report it.