Comments on: What ABCnews.com got really wrong about social media and Mumbai attacks

By: Skype: Why you should at least learn to use it — contentious.com

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:32:29 +0000

[...] of Twitter in covering the Mumbai terrorist attacks, I was called by several reporters (including ABCnews.com) to give interviews on that [...]

By: tweetip

tweetip — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:11:21 +0000

btw, none of our timelines include all the tweets. The timeline is a sample, the chart is all tweets found within an Event.

By: tweetip

tweetip — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:50:58 +0000

To clarify, those times are EST, not mumbai. We’ve tagged >100,000 mumbai related msgs so I may have missed a few.

If it was a rumor, then the beginning is very near to the screenshot timeframe. IOW, the rumor may have begun as speculation and someone decided to ‘broadcast’ it as fact.

Or, the Gov request is true, but still began in a low level convo, and same person decided to broadcast it.

The beginning of an Event is rarely apparent. We of course have an opinion, but we value displaying the data and watching the discussion.

hth

By: Amy Gahran

Amy Gahran — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:40:32 +0000

I’m not sure of the value of that particular post since it doesn’t really show the twitter origins of the rumor. It appears to be just a snapshot of repetitions of the rumor well after it started. Can you clarify?

- Amy Gahran

By: tweetip

tweetip — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:32:34 +0000

#Mumbai ~ 1st Tweets Timeline ~ Rumor of STOP TWITTERING & Twitter Search to shutdown #hashtag… http://tweetip.us/lkdoo