Media Transparent » Janis Krums http://mediatransparent.com Media is the New Marketing Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:59:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 #Flight1549 – Twitpic’s Coming of Age http://mediatransparent.com/2009/01/15/flight1549-twitpics-coming-of-age/ http://mediatransparent.com/2009/01/15/flight1549-twitpics-coming-of-age/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:10:07 +0000 Pat Kitano http://mediatransparent.com/?p=209 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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