Twitter - news and life in real time

How can you find out and feel when something big is going on? And how to do it in real time? The answer is, again, Twitter!

I arrived to the office today and I have opened Twitter as usual; a popular channel showed up to me: Air France! A catastrophic accident happened today with an Airbus 330 of AirFrance, over the Atlantic, from Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) to Paris (France).

The reactions on Twitter - 73 messages in 2 seconds: