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January 16th 2009     

Crash Tweets

Posted by: Laer at 07:53 am

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here’s a plane in the Hudson. I’m on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy.” – Twitter tweet and cell phone photo from Janis Krums of Sarasota, FL, transmitted within minutes of the crash.

For more on how Twitter was involved in the earliest news dispatches of the crash, check out this brief in Silicon Alley Insider.

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