CNN - Changing travel one tweet at a time

CNN

Changing travel one tweet at a time


updated 10:57 a.m. EST, Tue February 10, 2009


By Christopher Elliott
Tribune Media Services

(Tribune Media Services) -- "There's a plane in the Hudson. I'm on the ferry going to pick up the people."

Those words, hastily typed on Janis Krums' iPhone just after US Airways flight 1549 crashed into the Hudson River last month, marked yet another milestone in the microblogging revolution.

Read the whole article here.

re: "Plane Crash into the Hudson"

Carbuncle Trumpet ("What is a Carbunkle Trumpet and I hope I don't get any on my shoes!") has an interesting tidbit about the crash.

Money quote(s):

"Apparently there was a huge fight on all of the ferries who went to help the US Air passengers because they were charging the wet US Air passengers 15 dollars for the ride to New Jersey and to NY!"