I found out about the terrorist attacks in Mumbai earlier today from my sister-in-law. We made some phone calls to make sure everyone we know there was safe.
I got some sketchy information, and was trying to gather more bits. I tried a few different news channels, went to Yahoo! India, as well as tried Google Search. Most of these sites (& services) did not provide me the information and the details I was looking for.
Then I did Twitter search for Mumbai. Folks were putting up very useful links ( like pointing to ndtv live feed, cnn live feed, etc. ). Very quickly I was learning a whole lot more of what was going on in Mumbai. Thats when I found out that the situation was still developing, and was by no means over.
I won't dwell in this post about the dastardly nature of these attacks, but would like to commend Twitter on building a very useful service.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
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Its a bunch of scarred memories in that incident that shook many of us here....
Things are finally in control and surprisingly, I was following twitter more than the Television news channels as well.
Pete of Mashable has been talking about how useful twitter can be, I agreed to him when I saw the mumbai attacks activity....
its simply awesome....
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