TweetQuake: Twitter moving faster than an earthquake
Apparently, Twitter users reported the Virginia earthquake faster than the quake waves moved in an outwards radius.
It shows how social media can outpace real time events.
A heat map of the frequency of tweets mentioning the word “earthquake” in the 5 minutes after the Virginia earthquake on 08/23/2011. The locations are self-reported by Twitter users and may be erroneous. The spread of the earthquake is approximated to be 4000 m/s.
