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Lindzon beats CNN
July 19th, 2007 by dan
This is too damn cool to skip! (yea, lotza wireless news passed on without covering them here)
Let me share this web 2.0 story with you. You all know Howard Lindzon. And if you don’t, go over to wallstrip.com or google him and you’ll find out he’s one heck of a stock chap and exceptional web entrepreneur. I’ve invited him many months ago to join Twitter so I could stay in touch with his jibberish that I love reading so much. He declined joining for so long up until a couple of days ago when he made it a ridiculous “I am signing up and will twitter from toilets. Seems to be relevant for that. Track my waste”. And so he did. Until last night when Howard twittered: “Explosion in midtown. What. Pls advise. Seriously.” He was in downtown New York. I was in Bucharest, Romania.
It took about 20 minutes for CNN to react. I was on it. Maybe ten minutes before that Lindzon says “I was a block away from a massive explosion. Maybe grand central. Smoke everywhere.”
No more joking about toilets. No more ambiguity. Lindzon uses the one tool he bashes and pokes fun at to inform and hopefully inform himself of a crisis situation. Instantly! Wirelessly! Have this as an incredible turn of events!
My buddy Loic Le Meur’s twitts a few days ago about how he catches up with news on Twitter more than by reading his RSS. Now excentric Lindzon accepts my invitation to join and unwilingly offers this awesome example of the right person at the right time in the right place using the right service and instantly informing his peers he networked with registering to Twitter.
Is this the real web2.0? Ought to be, as Lindzon did not blog or email about the blast. He freakin twittered it!
Cool Howard! Really cool! Now buy some stock there! I have a feeling this is not the end of it.
I’m really glad you’re Okay and the blast was far enough!!
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July 19th, 2007 at 3:06 am
true…i always read news on my cell phone…aka twitter updates. but…maybe this time CNN had something more important…the Airbus A320 crash in Sao Paulo…ouch…200 victims vs 1 victim…
July 19th, 2007 at 4:48 am
i am still unsure of the value ther than as a broadcast tool which I get.
Thanks for helping out any way you could.
July 21st, 2007 at 12:52 am
[…] Proof of my theory arrived today. Here’s the story that has brought me out of my Twitter silence. Warning: The blog entry I cite, on the other side of this link, includes a profanity in one of the images. […]
October 6th, 2007 at 2:32 am
It makes sense. I heard about the Minneapolis bridge collapse first on twitter.
April 10th, 2008 at 5:48 am
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