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Twitter again proving its salt in Chino earthquake
By WDavidStephenson | July 29, 2008
The mainstream media has just 
reported a strong earthquake in the Chino Hills area of Cal., and already there are many Twiter “tweets” giving eyewitness reports of what happened. Don’t forget my “21st-century disaster tips you won’t hear from officials,” and BE SAFE!
PS. I haven’t written about it yet, but look for Qik, the mobile real-time video upload service, to have a lot of info on the quake …
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