While you all may have been scrambling to refresh CNN.com to find out more news about the South Korean climber rescued from Half Dome, Twitter was alive and buzzing with the news.
It all started around 9:25AM when Theresa Ho posted first news of the rescue.
@SimplyTheresa posted: Rescue has started for Korean climber caught in avalanche on Half Dome.
@YosemiteNPS: Korean Climber Rescued from Half Dome in Yosemite National Park: A Korean mountaineer was rescued from Half Dome. http://tinyurl.com/adea94
@YosemiteNPS: Link has a picture of where the rescue happened… climber w/ broken femur had to spend the night before rescuers could safely reach him.
@YosemiteNPS: Korean Climber Caught in Avalanche on Half Dome in Yosemite National Park: Early contact with the approximately .. http://tinyurl.com/apgn8a
@YosemiteSteve: Shot footage of this mornings rescue on Yosemite Half Dome, should be on Fresno ABC 30 this evening.
Who needs traditional news when you have Twitter?
Too bad the guy who was rescued didn’t have Twitter or a cell phone on him. That would have been REALLY cool.
Photo courtesy of LA Times/AP.
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One response to “Twitter Breaks the News of Climber Rescued from Half Dome”
That’s just fine, but a tweet is not a story. Hopefully people who know how to write an actual story will remain in demand even after the info-bites have struck. 😉