Here's an example of the speed of Twitter. This evening first hand and eyewitness reports started coming into me through Twitter that a plane had come down on the Hudson River in New York. It seemed it crash landed in the river straight after taking off. Twitter's buzz of this disaster was pretty quick. Only about an hour after the crash happened everyone on Twitter seemed to be talking about it.
Chatter included:
ginabenning I just witnessed a plane go down in the Hudson River from my living room window. This is surreal people have been rescued by NY finest.
kevglobal omg. some tweets from people who are eyewitness to a plane crash in the Hudson river. http://bit.ly/8w9y (via @christinelu)
Scobleizer When I started watching Twitter search for "plane" it was getting two tweets every 10 seconds. Now? 200 every 10 seconds. Wow.
dbarefoot Here's a photo of the crashed US Airways plane from Flickr: http://tr.im/usairwayscrash
kevglobal Still "don't get" Twitter? Enter "Hudson" or "Airways" into http://search.twitter.com/ right now. Brace for bad news; plane crash.
If you want to track what people are saying about the crash on Twitter right now, try using this link.
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