The power of Twitter & how news spreads
The team over @SocialFlow have put together an incredible post on the spread of news of Osama Bin Laden’s death through Twitter:
http://blog.socialflow.com/post/5246404319/breaking-bin-laden-visualizing-the-power-of-a-single
I particularly love these two sentences:
Twitter has become the dominant mechanism to get timely updates about events that are taking place regardless of geography, topic or even language.
And with that, the perfect situation unfolded, where timing, the right social-professional networked audience, along with a critically relevant piece of information led to an explosion of public affirmation of his trustworthiness.
Hat tip to @Pkedrosky for highlighting this…
