Sunday 7 July 2013

Samsung executive onboard plane that crashed in San Francisco, sent messages on Path and Twitter

Mobile technology has evolved to the point that a passenger on a plane that just crash landed can send out information about the incident through social networks. This allows the world to have a first-hand look into a horrific event. Samsung executive David Eun was a passenger on Asiana Flight 214 which crash-landed in San Francisco on Saturday. Eun sent out a message on Path, which also was sent out over Twitter, noting that he just crash-landed and that he was fine. One message read, "Fire and rescue people all over the place. They’re evacuating the injured. Haven’t felt this way since 9/11. Trying to help people stay calm. Deep breaths…”.

Eun's messages provided a real-time look into the events in San Francisco
Eun's messages provided a real-time look into the events in San Francisco
Eun conveyed different messages platitude that the dominant part of travelers had survived and his pictures have been utilized by Cnn within their reporting of the collision. Different witnesses to the collision additionally conveyed tweets with pictures connected. What makes this so stunning is that we have gone from discovering news from second and unbiased gatherings to knowing about occasions from those included continuously. 

Acknowledge the tweet conveyed by Eun that shows the travelers being cleared and running off the plane. Different travelers locally available the flight likewise took astounding pictures not that long after effect. We have turned into a planet with swarm sourced news and it appears that our first considered, other than getting to security, is to get our telephones and begin conveying pictures to whatever is left of the planet. 
source: AllThingsD

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