A Boy In Mid Air, By contrast, news was all over microblogging...

By contrast, news was all over microblogging website Twitter within minutes. One of the early reports came from New Yorker Janis Krum who wrote: “There’s a plane in the Hudson. I’m on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy.” Krum also uploaded this pic of the plane floating in the river. Krum was interviewed by MSNBC later yesterday and his pic had more than 100,000 views on TwitPic by this morning.

I didn’t follow Krum at the time but within about 10 minutes of first hearing about the plane crash, my Twitter friends were sending me messages pointing me to Krum’s post. It’s possible that either people who followed Krum already were repeating (or retweeting) his posts, or that they’d found his post by searching on a service such as Summize. Either way, it was impressively fast – and it was great hearing about it first-hand at a point in time when we weren’t sure if everyone had survived.

How the Hudson River plane crash brought us together, The Guardian. (via kripy)