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I used to think that until several months ago when I was on campus and got a call from a friend saying a gunman was roaming about, armed and ready to unload. Th
by kyro 17y ago
I used to think that until several months ago when I was on campus and got a call from a friend saying a gunman was roaming about, armed and ready to unload. The first thing I did was search for #uci (my uni) on Twitter and got hundreds of tweets from students around campus who were being herded to back rooms and put in lock down. Honestly, Twitter was the only place I could go to find that sort of news. The media picked up on the story about 30 minutes into it, so I thank Twitter for giving me the heads up to get the hell out of there, else I could have waited around a bit longer to see what was really happening, putting myself in a lot of risk. I mean, I probably would've beaten the gunman to death if he ever approached me, so Twitter really just spared me the discomfort of a week's worth of sore fists.
- BlueZeniX 17y agoWait, your friend called to give you a heads up and you thank twitter for it?
- sscheper 17y agoSeriously. People literally use one stretched example of how a tweet helped them, and then preach it to 40 year-old pr panelists, which then get regurgitated at 140 conferences. An endless cycle of shit.
- pyre 17y agoI think he's trying to say that if he hadn't used Twitter to confirm what his friend was saying, he might have spent time mulling around to see what the big deal was. In this case, Twitter was the cure for stupidity ("I'm not going to believe my friend, I'll ignore him!") instead of the generator of it ("I'm helping start a revolution in Iran from my computer chair! Go activist me! Yay!").