The power of Twitter is in it's realtime feed of events (search.twitter.com) I took this grab during that shooting in Germany: http://img.skitch.com/20090511-

The power of Twitter is in it's realtime feed of events (search.twitter.com) I took this grab during that shooting in Germany: http://img.skitch.com/20090511-m1uwngda28df3fjreqgqth1rfs.jpg http://img.skitch.com/20090511-m1uwngda28df3fjreqgqth1rfs.jp... It's a live feed of citizen reports with a CNN journalist begging for information they intend to filter and relay to viewers. This democratizes information. You don't have to listen to a corporation's framing/spin of an event. You get the raw facts and make your own judgments. And you get the facts in realtime.