Not to be a curmudgeon, but how is this Twitter "proving itself"? There was a fire; the guy and his family luckily survived; and then he tweeted about it, and o

Not to be a curmudgeon, but how is this Twitter "proving itself"? There was a fire; the guy and his family luckily survived; and then he tweeted about it, and other people responded after the fact. Why is this surprising/notable?