We can't help thinking to that day in 2001, to those who suffered and what we experienced then, whether we were there or across the ocean. I was interviewing an architect in Sweden when I heard about the first plane via text message. When I got a message about the second plane I realized this was no coincident. I finished the interview and got back to Copenhagen where I lived at the time and spent the rest of the day watching CNN.
Recently a plane crashed in the Hudson river in New York. I heard about it via twitter, and I bet many of you who were on twitter at the time did so to. It was Janis Krums who broke the news with those tweets:
and a link to this now famous pic on twitpic:
I can't help but wonder how we would have experienced the events if twitter was there. Would have been more real? Would have been too real maybe, reading tweets from the people in the towers, with no chance of survival? Would have been any better or worse? What do you think?
Hjörtur
@hjortur
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