Twitter and Journalism

A US Airways plane somehow makes an emergency landing in the Hudson river. The first pic to be circulated anywhere of the scene comes from a service called Twitpic, which functions in cooperation with twitter. Within minutes the picture is everywhere. A turkish Air plane makes a crash landing in a field right next to Schiphol airport in amsterdam, the first reports come again from twitter, people on the highway who observed the crash. Immediately tweets start circulating about how much faster people on twitter are than the conventional media.