Gallery: Eyewitness Tweets Are Breaking Big News
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January 15, 2009 ---------------- ### @highfours: I just watched a plane crash into the hudson rive in manhattan Brooklyn resident Jim Hanrahan was working as a digital marketing intern in a nearby building when he saw US Airways flight 1549 hit the Hudson River. Soon after, Florida entrepreneur Janis Krums (@jkrums), in town on a business trip, tweeted the now-famous first photo of the crash from a ferry (left). Photo: Janis Krums
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September 2, 2010 ----------------- ### @jdivenere: Here’s a pic of the gunman that my colleage at #discovery sent me http://yfrog.com/2mhdmdj Discovery Communications employee Jason DiVenere was at work in the network’s Chicago office when a gunman took hostages at Discovery’s Silver Spring, Maryland, headquarters. The photo, sent to him by a colleague on the scene, likely depicted a member of the SWAT team. DiVenere has refused to talk to the media and deleted the news-breaking tweet.
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May 1, 2011 ----------- ### @ReallyVirtual: Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event). Tech consultant Sohaib Athar moved from urban Pakistan to the mountain town of Abbottabad to get away from the rat race. When he tweeted about hearing choppers flying around his neighborhood, he became the first person to report on the operation that would kill Osama bin Laden. So much for the quiet life—Athar went on to become the first Pakistani to hit 100,000 Twitter followers. Photo: Warrick Page/Getty
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August 23, 2011 --------------- ### @JordnJnkieJuice: EARTHQUAKE !!!!! Teenager CeeJay Price was sitting on his porch at home in Richmond, Virginia, when he felt the ground shake. He tweeted just 24 seconds after the quake hit, before thousands followed suit as the seismic event moved up the East Coast. Twitter created a humorous promo video featuring a New York City office worker reading the DC tweets before bracing for the shake-up seconds later. Photo: Washington Post/Getty
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November 14, 2011 ----------------- ### @questlove: Omg, drivin down south st near #ows. Somethin bout to go down yo, swear I counted 1000 riot gear cops bout to pull sneak attack #carefulyall Questlove, the drummer for the Roots (and Twitter superstar with 1.8 million followers), broke the news of a secret police operation, tweeting a warning to Occupy Wall Street protestors of a massive law enforcement presence. Eighty minutes later, the cops stormed Zuccotti Park. Photo: Bryan Smith/Corbis
