Jeff Jarvis writes on the newsgathering potential of Twitter, and I see a problem:
Developers at the BBC and Reuters have picked up on the potential for this. They are working on applications to monitor Twitter, the Twitter search engine Summize, and other social-media services - Flickr, YouTube, Facebook - for news catchwords such as “earthquake” and “evacuation”.
Whilst you and I are getting the f%^& out of there, the BBC will be looking for people who are “evacuating.” If you can Twitter that, you were either nowhere near…
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Like my old BBC stylebook used to say - people don’t evacuate, buildings do.