The net is 'aTwitter' with Twitter plane crash man, the guy who live blogged the Continental plane crash in Denver a few days ago.
I'm a big reader of the UK Guardian, that broadsheet of lefty Brits. The comments to the news report on Twitter Plane Crash Man are amusing because it reveals a very stark cultural and perhaps generational divide. The comments reflected the perception that this guy was Twittering for glory sake and that he felt informing random strangers was more important than his friends and family.
It didn't occur to anyone commenting that this guy was informing his friends and family through Twittering; Twitter allowed him to inform his circle all at once rather than scattered phone calls and texts here and there. I'm sure he contacted the most important few personally but for the next concentric circle, Twitter worked just fine. I'm sure it was a complete fluke that others noticed his feed and his 15-minutes started right there.
I have a friend who started Twittering to keep her hyper-attentive Mom informed of her whereabouts without being barraged with phone calls several times a day. Why do you Twitter, Facebook or what have you?
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