Blogging, all over the world issues arise that catch someones attention. Last weeks terrorist attacks on Mumbai, India was an event that was visible to many people. Websites such as twitter were receiving as many as 80 messages via SMS every 5 seconds. The article states that some of these messages were cries of help by innocent by-standers, some asking for ambulances to bring blood, and further help organize relief programs to help those in need after the attacks. Some of the messages to Twitter were sent from inside of the hotel while it was under attack, "One tweet from "Dupree" appeared to be coming from inside one of the hotels: "Mumbai terrorists are asking hotel reception for rooms of American citizens and holding them hostage on one floor."" However after a while some of these "tweets", that were being sent in were becoming inaccurate and potentially harmful, CNN states, "It read simply: "Indian government asks for live Twitter updates from Mumbai to cease immediately. ALL LIVE UPDATES - PLEASE STOP TWEETING.""
This article purely shows that we live in the informational age, but the misinformation part is still there, endangering lives was also a possibility because of the inaccurate information that some people provided. Some bloggers went as far as to say that up to 1,000 people had dies due to the attacks.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/27/mumbai.twitter/index.html
Thomas Baker
November 30th, 2008
1 comment:
Wow. That is so creepy. I bet some of those messages were really eerie. I can’t believe that the only outlet for people who were trapped was to blog about what was going on. I think it’s so fascinating in a spine-chilling kind of way.
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