Plane Crash Liveblogged on Twitter

The immediate access to microblogging service like Twitter means that you can get eyewitness, or even victim, reports live. Like Twitter user 2drinksbehind, who blogged about a plane crash in Denver. Silicon Alley Insider screenshotted the whole thing, but do dig into the 2drinksbehind timeline if you want the real deal.

Fortunately, no one was killed in the accident.

In other news, if you want to be prepared to share your story using a mobile phone, Mashable provides a massive list of tools.

Thord Daniel Hedengren

Thord Daniel Hedengren is a designer, writer, and blogger, and also the former editor of The Blog Herald. He used to be a hotshot in the gaming industry in Sweden, but sold everything and went International. Most recently he wrote a book called Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog, and does loads of kickass design.

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Martin says:

December 24, 2008 at 3:01 pm

Some more detail about the incident here…

http://riverscrap.typepad.com/home/2008/12/plane-crash-victim-updates-twitter-before-fleeing.html

Good on Mr Wilson for securing his 15mins of fame, but personally I’d leave the gadgetry aside until I was totally out of harm’s way!