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Earthquake in UK? News Broken on Twitter

02/26/08

Permalink 05:07:00 pm, by Amanda Hughes Email , 75 words   English (US)
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Earthquake in UK? News Broken on Twitter

By Josh Catone

It would appear that an earthquake was just felt across the UK (hopefully not a major one!). Where did the news first break? Well, we heard about it over Twitter. It's all over the site, including being broken on Twitter-based news organization BreakingNewsOn, which is reporting a 5.3 magnitude earthquake in the UK with minimal damage reported so far. Where didn't we hear about the quake? The mainstream press.

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