A magnitude 4.7 earthquake hit Southern California yesterday, causing concerned citizens to turn to the most trusted name in news for information: Twitter.
As of approximately 10:00 AM Monday, a search for #earthquake shows updates from thousands of users. From the gist of their posts, most people are emotionally shaken from the quake but the physical damage is minimal.Also, an LA chiropractor wonders "how strong a quake it's going to take to get me to run outside of the house instead of posting earthquake updates to twitter." He guesses 5.5, but given the way people tend to go on and on about pretty much everything I'm guessing it'll require actual domicile collapse, and even then you'll see people standing in doorframes typing out one final hashtag.
5.5 is about right! That's when books start to slip off the shelves. I need to twitter this guy.
There was one last night too.
An earthquake, that is.
"From the gist of their posts, most people are emotionally shaken from the quake but the physical damage is minimal."
They must be new in town. Last night's was about as rugged as a magic fingers mattress cycle.
Oh...that was an earthquake? I thought it was the Chicken Diane I had from Astro's.
The epicenter was here:
http://tinyurl.com/pg8hkz
I believe I bought dope from that very same address.
From what I saw after the Loma Prieta quake, I believe that some tourists will be running into the street trying to hale a cab and trying to tweet it over their phone at the same time.
Twitter is set to add some lively entertainment to the quake aftermath.