Robin Hamman follows how the microblogging tool Twitter was again so effectively used during the bomb blasts in Jaipur two days ago. Robin used Tweetscan, a tool that searches public Twitter messages for keywords, to see if anyone was twittering from the scene. It's not rocket science: give people free, open, easy to use tools like Twitter and they will tell their stories. Or as Rob Patterson at the FastForwardBlog puts it,
Twitter - the new AP - no cost - high impact linkQuite.