« Back to the top page
Venture Beat

Twitter joins the Olympics, as a Chinese journalist cries out for help

Chris Morrison, VentureBeat08.14.2008
Tags
Comments 0
Like the story? Get Alerts of big news events. Enter your email address

There seems to be some grassroots support for the idea of an emergency broadcast system on the micro-messaging service Twitter, at least from people who have emergencies to broadcast. The latest cry for help: A Chinese journalist nabbed by security forces during the Olympics and forced to go to a village... (Read more)

Reprinted with permission from VentureBeat. Story copyright 2008 VentureBeat Inc. All rights reserved.

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
Respectful debate is welcome, but comments that are defamatory, indecent, abusive, or in violation of any law will be removed.