Twitter as my new news source
From Twitter Pic
I walked past London Liverpool Street after work this evening and saw about thousand of people, mostly teenagers, crowded together singing and shouting. It was definitely not a normal Friday night commute busyness. As first I thought something bad happened, but then from the happy faces of the teens and calm-yet-in-guard policemen there, I released a bit. I asked one of the guy there what’s going on, he told me something like “flash mob” or whatever similar. Then I asked another one from a sandwich shop, he told me it was “some sort of facebook party”. Then it made more sense to me, but I still didn’t know what’s going. But I twittered it from my phone.
I’m home now. The fact that nothing mentioned in BBC homepage about what happened already confirmed that it’s not major enough to go on news. But then there is also nothing from Google News when I search for “liverpool street” as keyword. That’s weird. Lastly I went on Twitter Search and gradually getting the full picture, including the photo posted above, and another one.
It’s nothing new to break news from Twitter (Earthquake, Plane Crash in NYC). But I’m still amazed by the power of public as media.
By the way, I really wish I had grabbed my lunch on that day at that time .