Twitter reported China earthquake first

Before it was on CNN, before MSNBC, before the BBC, even before the USGS (The United States Geological Survey, which handles earthquake data) had the information, Twitter was on it

This could become an entirely new way to  report the news, a  decentralized  network of millions across the globe reporting the news real time. Twitter is still  a pup, imagine where it could be in a year or so.