Another great example of ‘citizen journalism’. I was watching the Soho fire this afternoon from the relative safety of Millbank, while posting pics and Twittering about the look and location of the fire like so many other Londoners.
Within minutes there was a pretty detailed account of the fire made possible by pulling together the consistent facts of thousands of Tweets.
It was almost an hour before the BBC was on the scene and reporting the fire.
Will Sturgeon is director of media strategy at LEWIS PR and a former editor of silicon.com. He also blogs at sturgeonslaw.blogspot.com.
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