Minutes after 1:53 p.m. EST today, I noticed my Facebook and Twitter connects updating their statuses and tweeting about an event: “earthquake!”
I searched Google News and found this: Rare Strong Earthquake Hits Colorado. Five minutes after the event, few if any mainstream news organizations had posted a story about the D.C. quake. (But poor Colorado for getting its thunder stolen.)
Yet Twitter was exploding with people posting about the D.C. earthquake the instant it was happening, many from their mobile phones:
This is the power of the mobile web and a powerful side of technology. We are all citizens, always reporting.
Thankfully, no injuries were reported.
D.C. Earthquake Reporting & the Power of the Mobile Web is a post from Apple iPhone Review.