Twitter Travels Faster than Seismic Waves
Here at the Flocab HQ in Brooklyn, we got a little bit shaken up during Tuesday’s earthquake. An earthquake is a surprising thing around these parts! But if we’d been dutifully checking our Twitter feed, we could have learned about the quake before it even rattled the Brooklyn Bridge.
Turns out: Twitter travels faster than seismic waves. According to this article, it would have been possible for us to read about the earthquake in New York a good minute before we felt it.
If you read about the news before it actually happens, does that make you a time traveller? We sure hope so.
Regardless, the ability to communicate via social media during a natural disaster could prove invaluable when other lines of communication fail. Did you use Twitter or Facebook to communicate about the earthquake?
Learn about the earthquake and more in the ALL NEW Week in Rap.
