I have found twitter to be incredibly useful and truly amazing for finding immediate first-hand information during sudden events (ie: Protests after George Floy

I have found twitter to be incredibly useful and truly amazing for finding immediate first-hand information during sudden events (ie: Protests after George Floyd's death, Beirut, Boston Marathon Bombing, things like that.) For this case to happen, a few things must align: 1) Important and accessible to enough people on that platform such that effective hashtags "coalesce" and the event becomes searchable 2) Recent (or ongoing/changing) enough that new information available in first-hand accounts has not yet made it to news reports. 3) Not flooded or taken over by bots and malicious accounts. I wish there was a platform (or ideally an open standard linking multiple platforms effectively) where I could have the interaction I just described but on a much smaller scale. An up-to-the-minute first-hand witness of "whats going on". Essentially, the "raw" news. Technologically, Twitter should work just fine for this. But there are significant problems currently with reliability, trust, and misuse that I believe lead to the general problems people have with twitter which then prevent it's use for the type of "first hand accounting" I've described here.