Twitter has been highly prevalent in the citizen journalism reports about what has been going on in the terror chaos in Mumbai with reports saying at one time the Indian government wanted people to stop Twittering.
Indian blogger Gauravonomics is saying that Twitter has been one of the best sources for real-time citizen journalism news on the Mumbai terrorist attacks.
Various sources were also reporting that at the height of the terror attacks the Indian government asked for all live Twitter updates from the scene to cease immediately. It was concerned that terrorists were using the updates to keep abreast of the news. Scary thought that terrorists are also early adopters.
A tweet was sent and reposted across Twitter saying: "ALL LIVE UPDATES - PLEASE STOP TWEETING about #Mumbai police and military operations". Seems fair enough although you might have wanted to stop broadcast media pointing their cameras and updating their websites. If terrorists were monitoring Twitter, they were no doubt looking at news sites to get intelligence on Indian military movements.The Indian blogosphre has also been highly active and Flickr has too has seen a lot of activity as citizen journalists snapped shots and posted them online.The Guardian was also reporting on the use of Google Maps page and Wikipedia page and how quickly they were set up.Follow me on Twitter
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