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…