Monday, March 1, 2010

Kevin Smith/Twitter


When this story first broke I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe that southwest airlines asked Kevin Smith to get off the plane because he was a safety risk and essentially telling the man he is to fat to have just one seat. what I was even more i shock about is that TWITTER is what broke this story with his tweet blasting the airline. The story spread all over the Internet and local news stations of what occurred between smith and the airline. It is incredible how quickly something travels with just 140 character long tweet. It spread like a wild fire!!! It is mind boggling how quickly that spread. but it did. Southwest airlines must be doing a great amount of damage control, because everyone seems to be on smiths side. there was a way to handle that differently other than kicking him off and making an announcement in front of all the passengers! how embarrassing for smith! You know what the funny part is? I dont even think he is that big!!! I hope he tears them apart, what happened to him shouldn't happen to anyone and the airline should be embarrassed for what they did to him!

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  1. When I heard the news about Kevin Smith, that was the first thing that popped into my head, the amazing power of Twitter. Within minutes was spread all over the Internet and media outlets. I find that today broadcast news relies heavily on information they get from Twitter.

    While watching some of the Chile earthquake coverage last weekend on CNN, I noticed how often the anchors said "we found out about this on Twitter." More than five out of ten times the comments that they news anchors were relaying to viewers were based on tweets posted by users in the South American country.

    Do not underestimate the power of Twitter.

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