How Social Media is Killing CNN
Anyone who spent time online the previous week could not have avoided being exposed to the horrific events of the Mumbai terrorist attack on Thursday.
Those plugged into social media networks such as Twitter and Facebook were privvy to a fascinating but terrible phenomenon. Online viewers the world over were inundated with live, up to the second footage and news items channeling the Mumbai carnage to their computer screens, literally as it unfolded.
I was logged into Twitter and glued to my laptop screen all day. Several bloggers residing in India’s financial capital were live-blogging events as they happened and many others who couldn’t get online were on the phone feeding updates to news agencies and social media sites.
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