Thanks To Twitter, East Coasters Were Able To Quickly Verify the Quake

All the way up in New York, and even in Toronto, we at the Social Times felt the buildings shake.  None of us were quite sure what it was.  Google News was silent, even Facebook didn’t have a peep.  Where do I go, for an immediate reaction and validation of whether it was an earthquake or not?  It has to be a search of the term “earthquake” on Twitter.  And yes, immediately, everyone on Twitter realized that the tremors had shaken the entire Eastern coast of North America.

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