Want to know what’s happening? Listen to Twitter
Check out this story from Baristanet.com. This is just a snippet that I edited; you’ll have to click on to read the rest of the story:
Last Friday night… an alert came over from Breaking News Network, which caught my attention:
*Smoke Condition*| Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), 10 Toler Pl| smoke condition in the control tower has all air traffic shutdown for the airports…
…we turned on the car radio to see if the local news had anything, but heard nothing…
I didn’t think any more about the incident until yesterday, when I read a blog post by Tom Evslin, chief technology officer for the state of Vermont, who happened to be sitting on a plane waiting to take off…Evslin, being a captive to the situation, tried harder than I did to find out what was going on. Using twitter he… (click here to read the rest: http://www.baristanet.com/2011/03/twitter-and-ewr/