Shooting near Capitol in D.C. reported on Twitter first
Per NBC News Channel 8 in D.C., police shot a 35-year-old man at New Jersey Avenue NW and C Street NW near the Capitol this evening in Washington, D.C.
Katherine Mozzone (@kmdmozzone), a University of Georgia broadcast news graduate and NBC News receptionist who lives in D.C. per her bio, provided the first tweet on the news — nearly 16 minutes before @BreakingNews first reported the incident and several minutes before CNN and others.
She later told Breaking Tweets that she “witnessed the end of the chase” and that she tweeted just after alerting NBC Newschannel.
A series of D.C. Twitterers added context and first thoughts upon hearing of the shooting.
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Related tweets in real-time:
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Could someone confirm what time shooting was posted to Twitter and BreakingTweets?
I'm interested because our national news media claims to publish it 0:57 AM local time (5:57 PM DC time), but for me it is bit hard to believe it, since news on finnish mainstream media could be seen on web approximate one hour later than what claimed publishing time was. I think they are falsing timestamp so it doesn't look like someone posted shooting news first to private blog before mainstream media.
You can translate my blog post to english, it is based on story here. I recommend BT to add exact time stamp for blog posts.
Jukhau, Thanks for the comment.
BT story I believe was posted around 5:50 p.m. DC time. That first tweet was about 5:22 p.m. if I have my numbers right, @BreakingNews posted at 5:36 p.m.? These are my best estimates based on what I remember. Something like that.
Adding timestamp to BT posts is a good idea. I'll look into it. Until then, you can find us on Google News to see how many hours ago it was posted.
Ok. Thanks for this info. Adding timestamp is probably good idea, specially if your idea is to compete with traditional news sources.
Had my numbers wrong. @BreakingNews was definitely 16 minutes after her tweet, not 14, but you get the idea — they're around there.
Also, I'm not sure our idea is to “compete” with traditional news – just offer something different and a closer look at these types of stories from the perspective of Twitterers near the scene of the news.