Tonight, I learned that Osama bin Laden was dead. From Twitter.
Everything about this event I learned first from Twitter.
We had MSNBC on the TV. The Sunday evening anchor was struggling to tell the story w/out telling the story.
Twitter knew. I felt like a newbie journalist with a big scoop, shouting Tweets as they streamed.
"Why aren't they saying this?" My mother was sorely frustrated w/ the lack of information she was getting from the TV.
This was the news story that legitimized social networking. We hear news, share feelings, thoughts, and bad jokes. While our generation is said to be less social because of the Internet, when big things happen, we are all together in that moment. You can read about it in the newspaper tomorrow. We already know.
