After my friends and I walked out of our rooms to discuss the subtle rumble, I decided to take a quick glance on Facebook to see what my friends were saying.
My friend made a joke out of the whole "Change-my-Facebook-status-to-report-my-experience-with-the-earthquake" phenomenon.
Trevor Tessalone earthquake. 1st to say it. winner.
Ryan's was pretty good too:
Ryan McDermott That's what u call an Easterquake...
It's always really funny to see how quickly people rush to Facebook to comment on earthquakes...I'm not sure why it's such a necessary thing for people to do. People whip out their cell phones just to type "earthquake" into their Facebook status, and log off. WHY?
Tiffany Higgins Earthquake...
I wonder how many thousands of people on Twitter in the LA area made this their status in the past 10 minutes. I need one of those tracking tools to figure that out.
At this point, "that Twitter tracking tool" might be equally as valuable as the seismograph that measured the actual quake.
Great post, Brian. I was sitting in my apartment near Santa Monica when the earthquake hit. I didn't feel it nor did I even know about it until my mother called me from Houston to ask me if I was OK. I went to CNN.com to find out exactly where it hit then went directly to Twitter to find out who felt it. Obviously, I learned more from Twitter than from CNN.com!
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