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"If I want news, I can go to a news website/aggregator" The one time I found twitter to be far superior is when I heard gunshots outside my apartment and found

"If I want news, I can go to a news website/aggregator" The one time I found twitter to be far superior is when I heard gunshots outside my apartment and found the location and a pretty good understanding of what happened within a few minutes.

refurb 10y ago
As someone who barely uses Twitter, how did you find the information? I'm sure there is good info out there, but it's impossible to find unless you've already subscribed to follow people.
- iambateman 10y ago
  My community Facebook group does a fantastic job at answering the regular "gunshots vs. fireworks" debate.
  - majewsky 10y ago
    Is this really a regular debate in the US? I've never heard a gunshot in my life in Germany.
- mistersquid 10y ago
  Twitter apps on mobile devices can surface near-to-you Tweets. This is incredibly helpful in emergency situations. A couple years back there were, literally, a dozen police cars on my street and traffic blocked in all directions. I discovered on Twitter searching Tweets near to me that a man had barricaded himself in an apartment around the corner. He had a hostage and when he started lighting the apartment on fire, the SF SWAT team killed him. [0] More info on event from The SFist. [1] [0] https://twitter.com/galactic/status/200451986838138880 https://twitter.com/galactic/status/200451986838138880 [1] http://sfist.com/2012/05/09/homicide_suspect_has_standoff_with.php http://sfist.com/2012/05/09/homicide_suspect_has_standoff_wi... EDIT: Link layout. Spelling. Reduce number of single-sentence paragraphs. Reword fourth sentence.
- jasonkostempski 10y ago
  It was 2010, I don't quite remember how I did it, but it was super easy at the time. Had something to do with location searching. It was the "Buffalo City Grill Shooting". At the time I was a heavy twitter user and it was immediately obvious how I could query the app to figure out what just happened. Now I don't even have an account so I'm not sure it's still possible.

refurb 10y ago

As someone who barely uses Twitter, how did you find the information? I'm sure there is good info out there, but it's impossible to find unless you've already subscribed to follow people.

iambateman 10y ago
My community Facebook group does a fantastic job at answering the regular "gunshots vs. fireworks" debate.
- majewsky 10y ago
  Is this really a regular debate in the US? I've never heard a gunshot in my life in Germany.
mistersquid 10y ago
Twitter apps on mobile devices can surface near-to-you Tweets. This is incredibly helpful in emergency situations. A couple years back there were, literally, a dozen police cars on my street and traffic blocked in all directions. I discovered on Twitter searching Tweets near to me that a man had barricaded himself in an apartment around the corner. He had a hostage and when he started lighting the apartment on fire, the SF SWAT team killed him. [0] More info on event from The SFist. [1] [0] https://twitter.com/galactic/status/200451986838138880 https://twitter.com/galactic/status/200451986838138880 [1] http://sfist.com/2012/05/09/homicide_suspect_has_standoff_with.php http://sfist.com/2012/05/09/homicide_suspect_has_standoff_wi... EDIT: Link layout. Spelling. Reduce number of single-sentence paragraphs. Reword fourth sentence.
jasonkostempski 10y ago
It was 2010, I don't quite remember how I did it, but it was super easy at the time. Had something to do with location searching. It was the "Buffalo City Grill Shooting". At the time I was a heavy twitter user and it was immediately obvious how I could query the app to figure out what just happened. Now I don't even have an account so I'm not sure it's still possible.