Bomb blast in #Oslo, twitter user updates the world

Posted by gihangamos on July 22, 2011 · 1 Comment 

‘Huge Explosion in Oslo‘ was the message that Christian Aglen posted just an hour ago. He is at the scene right now posting pics from the scene. His twitter account is getting followers by the dozen each second (at point of writing this, his follower count was 525, when I saw his first Bomb tweet, it was only at 300 odd).

@chaglen - Unreal. An entire block has exploded! Huge explosion rocks Oslo, Norway!

http://www.twitvid.com/embed.php?guid=RQNBF&autoplay=0

For further updates, follow his twitter account – @chaglen

Another case in point for the power of social media in reaching news quicker than conventional/traditional means

Image source:

http://twitpic.com/5tzsmx (via @chaglen)

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