Ryan Joy (atxryan)

What news have you heard or seen on Twitter first? I’m talking about the kind of news that would’ve been breaking on CNN had you been watching at the time. After each of these tweet discoveries, I went to the Internet to find out more.

Here, I’ll go first… this is all from memory, so I’m definitely missing some things. I especially can’t remember the many deaths that I first learned of on Twitter.

• Anna Nicole Smith’s death
• Earthquake in China
• Charlton Heston’s death
• Heath Ledger’s death
• Both crane incidents in New York
• Ted Kennedy’s seizure and subsequent brain tumor diagnosis
• Ice was confirmed to be found on Mars

Most of these items were tweeted by friends whom I follow. The exciting announcement from Mars came from their Mars Phoenix Twitter account. As I’m starting to follow more traditional sources of news, I expect to learn of other breaking news and be led to their websites for more information.

Ok, your turn…