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The day Twitter came of age?

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On Thursday morning we added a Twitter account and feed to the JPR blog. On Thursday evening Janis Krums added this iPhone pic of the stricken US Airways airbus on the Hudson River to Twitpic. There is a huge amount of comment online, certain to feature prominently in the upcoming MAC299 module and elsewhere, much of it along the lines of a post from the BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones. Serious people are beginning to think that Twitter is becoming a significant tool for journalists…

Video interview with Krums here.

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