Australian ABCNews is reporting that news of the bombs at the Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels in Jakarta was first posted by Twitter user Daniel Tumiwa from his Blackberry:
“Bom @ marriot and ritz Carlton kuningan jakarta
2 boms go off at marriot hotel ad ritz carlton jakarta
2 boms go off inside Ritz Carlton and Marriott coffee shops! Not kidding. Am here.
Left location.Shocked. Lots of blood. Breakfast meetings at coffee shops while bombs went off.
Thanks for all the concern. Back home. Safe. Shocked. Blood…smoke…glass…everywhere…prayers to the victims….”
Simple, immediate and graphic. Pictures of the outrage also rapidly appeared on Twitpic.
You can follow Intrahost on Twitter, although we tend to tweet about online web design resources and such like rather than terrorism; but I guess you can never know whether or not today is the day that YOU will be a breaking news story to the world via Twitter?
