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Blogging the I35W Bridge Collapse

by Rick Mahn

Last Wednesday’s tragic bridge failure of I35W crossing the Mississippi River in Minneapolis was an example of how the Internet has become the most instantaneous information transmission platform in history.  Within minutes of the collapse, bloggers were posting information, pictures and updates about what was happening.

As with the recent steam pipe explosion in New York, the fastest conduit for news and information is Twitter.  twitterTwitter is a micro-blogging platform that limits posts to 140 characters, but forwards the posts to cell phones, instant message tools, and web pages.  Using Twitter, the news of the collapse traveled around the world in minutes - faster than any “breaking news” story on your favorite mainstream media outlet could ever dream of.

If you’re interested, here is my Twitter link, feel free to follow me.

http://twitter.com/rickmahn

Via: TwinCities.com - Internet becomes lifeline, record

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Posted in General on August 8th, 2007

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