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 […]

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