• That appar­ently took 45 min­utes to get up. They could have called any­one on Twit­ter 30 min­utes ago to get those details from what offi­cials were say­ing based on what they had already read thanks to Twit­ter and Google.
• TechCrunch colum­nist MG Siegler • Com­ment­ing on the break­ing nature of the Tiger Woods crash. @BreakingNews had it 45 min­utes before any main­stream news source. When CNN had it, they had zero infor­ma­tion. This is because they needed to source it, whereas @BreakingNews didn’t. Another inter­est­ing note from the story – BNO News, which cur­rently runs @BreakingNews, will let MSNBC run the feed start­ing next month. Expect it to start suck­ing at that point. source

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