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Man uses Twitter to blog plane crash

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Computing | by Samuel Axon | Tue Dec 23, 2008 5:21PM | 2 comments

We often ask ourselves how we'd handle an extreme situation. If you had just survived a plane crash, for example, what would be the first thing you'd do? You probably wouldn't (we're guessing; who knows?) blog about it, but that's what a man named Mike Wilson did. After his plane veered off the runway and wrecked at the airport in Denver, he wrote the above-pictured "tweet" (warning: profanity behind the link) on Twitter, a website on which users share extremely short blog updates with friends.

He waited until he was no longer in danger before he started, but he went on to explain what happened, how it made him feel, and so on to his friends, all using an app on his iPhone. It probably goes without saying that this is the tip of the iceberg of weirdness to come in a world where each person is increasingly connected to everyone else at all times!

This story around the web:

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external link Continental Passenger Tweets About Plane… [Switched]
external link Man Tweets From Plane Crash [PC World]
external link Plane crash man Tweets live from the wreck [TechRadar: All Latest Feeds]
external link Would you tweet your plane crash? [Shiny Shiny]

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Martin external link (2:59 PM on Wed Dec 24, 2008)

Some more detail about the incident here...

http://riverscrap.typepad.com/home/2008/12/plane-crash-vi...

Good on Mr Wilson for securing his 15mins of fame, but personally I'd leave the gadgetry aside until I was totally out of harm's way!

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Dorie P. (7:49 PM on Tue Dec 23, 2008)

Sure beats making a bazillion individual phone calls to all the friends and family. In this sort of situation, they could also know right away that he was okay. Plus, tweeting as it unfolds is kind of cathartic. I was amused at my ability to tweet right after waking up from the anesthetic cocktail at the dentist when I got wisdom teeth pulled. I was too numb and then sore to make those phone calls. P E R HA PS I T IS T H E MO D E R N - D A Y T E L E GR A M (stop)

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