Danny Sullivan's Twitter list about Watertown

https://twitter.com/dannysullivan/watertown

by pg • 13 years ago

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nreece• 13 years ago

This one has same + more members (mostly on-scene): https://twitter.com/meetmarshall10/boston-tweeps

pmorici• 13 years ago

This link from that stream is interesting, http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=28147498...

It is an article talking about a kid who went missing a month ago who is thought to be one of the suspects.

toufka• 13 years ago

actually posited on reddit, http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1cn9ga/is_missing_st... a day ago - well before his name was released over the police scanners.

adebelov• 13 years ago

pg, check out this one: https://twitter.com/AKitz

friend of mine who had a first hand account of the standoff

freehunter2• 13 years ago

The Boston police ask that your friend not tweet street addresses.

MichaelApproved• 13 years ago

Link doesn't work on iPad.

simondlr• 13 years ago

Great use of lists. News sites curate social media as it happens with their stories. It would be great if individuals on Twitter could do this. Curate tweets around a hashtag.

dakrisht3• 13 years ago

Agreed 100%

Never really used Twitter lists before but this one shows the true capability of having an aggregate list of important information on what is turning out to be chaos in the Watertown area.

dakrisht3• 13 years ago

The Reddit/Twitter/Social Media aspect of this entire series of events is truly unprecedented. It's truly amazing to see how the Internet has enabled a constant, real-time stream of information from thousands of sources to be analyzed, commented on, shared, sent in to the FBI and other law enforcement agencies for leads, and etc. Truly something special and never before seen.

prawn4• 13 years ago

I wonder how many people who absolutely detest the gap-filling vacuity of 24-hour news channels are glued to tweets and tabs following live comments, Twitter lists, police scanners and the like right now?

I know I'm in that category.

dakrisht3• 13 years ago

Agreed 100%. I watched CNN for 15 minutes and they literally kept looping the same 15-second clip of police running down a street with guns drawn.

On the other hand, you had a thriving community of Reddit/HN/Twitter users, live scanner and BPD radio feeds, you can stream CBS Boston (local station 10x better than CNN) and a variety of other real-time (accurate) information.

This entire ordeal from Monday's incident to the community working together to pinpoint the suspects to today's manhunt at MIT will go down in history as a pivotal moment in the crowdsourced news movement.

prawn4• 13 years ago

Is it possible/likely that the marathon bombers were spotted planting bombs on campus at MIT and killed the cop that tried to stop them? If so, his effort and sacrifice may have saved many more casualties.

Kequc• 13 years ago

Do you have any reason to think this?

prawn4• 13 years ago

Edit: Have now read that the officer (presumably the original, now deceased) was responding to a 7-11 robbery or shot in his car when searching for the robbers.

Danny Sullivan's Twitter list about Watertown

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