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Ways That Twitter Can Make Your Life Better 3

by Terrence O'Brien on June 2, 2009 at 03:19 PM



2. Get breaking news

One of the great things about Twitter is occasionally scooping the news media on major world events. Whether it's the latest on earthquakes or plane crashes, up-to-the-second news usually makes it to Twitter first (just make sure to take that news with a grain of salt, since it's not always 100-percent verified). Sometimes you're just lucky enough to be following somebody caught in the action, but you can also use applications like TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop to create auto-updating searches for specific topics and keywords on Twitter.

You can also get breaking updates from news sources such as CNN, the BBC, and The News Wire (which has seemingly built its entire reputation around Twitter reporting). Or get hometown news by following your local newspaper or TV news channel for nearly anywhere, such as Southwest Florida; New Haven, Connecticut; Staten Island, New York; and Denver, Colorado among countless others.

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