Twitter for Breaking News

I was just driving down the freeway – I-5 southbound on my way to Ikea – another story. Anyway, as I was driving I looked to my right, catching glances of massive, huge plumes of black, sooty smoke breaking in the distance, growing taller and taller. Something was definitely on fire. My trusty iphone yielded nothing on West Seattle Blog. The radio airwaves were filled with sports and talk, but nothing on the fire. A few minutes later, I thought: ‘Let’s search Twitter’. I searched “west seattle”. Immediately two posts on the subject

@AlmostHandy posted: Meth House on fire in West Seattle – Listen Live http://bit.ly/SeaFire

@myscottydont RT @komonews: Seattle firefighters are responding to a building fire in West Seattle. Listen live online: http://bit.ly/KJt5T

So, definitely not a complete story, but it was more than anywhere else. I wouldn’t enter a conversation and say “In West Seattle there was a huge meth house that caught fire” because I’m not sure – factually and hard evidence speaking – exactly what is going on – but at least I have something!

Wow…Twitter really is cool.

Make your business the one stop (search twitter) stop for the most up to date, breaking news in your category!