Twitpic crashed this afternoon due to all the traffic from a now famous iPhone snapshot that Twitterer Janis Krums took of the crashed US Airways plane in the Hudson River.
Twitpic takes it place as THE breaking news image source. Why? It’s simple to use and has become a standard. In an extraordinary, emergency situation, citizen journalists have no time to figure out how to send their iPhone snapshots to CNN or any other media outlet. In fact, CNN should just buy or invest in Twitpic now.
Now that opportunistic programmers see the power of a Twitter app like Twitpic, expect development of a new set of apps that facilitate news gathering and reporting. For example, iPhone apps developed by news organizations like NYT might include a camera link that allows its users to send snapshots directly to the news organization.
One snapshot from a ferry spawns a 15-minute celebrity:
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Twitter is truly amazing in that sense. News breaks faster on Twitter than anywhere else. Its such an amazing tool and can really be used for soo much more than just a blogging tool. Thanks for sharing the pic- was a crazy story- props to the flight crew and pilots!
Funny thing – I was flying from O’Hare to LaGuardia the very same day