The Power of Twitter? All in a Hashtag
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Twitter broke the news of Whitney Houston’s death 27 minutes before the first news organization. The death of Osama Bin Laden was announced play-by-play on Twitter prior to any journalist nabbing the story. Why was the ability to search for key words and find “trends” not an original feature of Twitter?