Given it was her first earthquake experience, Wilson did what comes
naturally--she twittered it.
"As soon as I got dressed, I twittered my experience from my cell phone," Wilson
said. "I usually twitter to 80 friends, but I now have 274 messages from people
commenting on it."
Twittering and texting may be the way to go in an emergency, given landline and cellular phone networks were heavily congested as callers jammed the lines, creating frustration for some users who had difficulty getting calls through.
Twitter is an interesting and practical real-time messaging system for groups and friends. It's just not completely obvious how to get into the "club." So, here's a newbie's guide to this new platform. We don't cover every feature of Twitter, but this should help get you started.
"Rep. Peter Hoekstra tweets upon landing in Baghdad with a congressional delegation, and we wonder: is somebody available to revoke his BlackBerry privileges ? Read this blog post by Rafe Needleman on Webware."