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In Focus: Use Of Copter Crash Twitter Photos
- The Guardian , Wednesday, January 16, 2013 3:45 PM
The fatal helicopter crash in London on Wednesday morning once again put Twitter in the spotlight, with the social network beating traditional media to the story with instant eyewitness accounts, pictures and video. That BBC Radio 4 Today programme referred to Twitter as the news was breaking showed just how much social media has transformed the way mainstream news organisations cover breaking stories in recent years.
