People moan about Twitter being toxic etc, but it has become the best (only?) source for real-time news. You cannot get any quicker than learning information from people already on the ground and posting about what they are seeing.

Twitter knew what was happening before legacy media had even got out of bed.

if it goes down, we have lost an incredibly important source of news.

And all because of a giant manbaby throwing a tantrum

@Scientits the question is: how much of all this was down to features inherent in twitter as a platform, and how much was simply the fact twitter was the only game in town

i've no idea what the answer is but i guess we're about to find out