Twitter has once again shown why it could be one of the most important services for today and the future.Whilst the news outlets like CNN and the BBC struggle to grasp current information and an idea of what exactly is going on, citizen journalists worldwide and those local to Mumbai are telling the story tweet by tweet on Twitter. Twitter is a micro blogging service that allows users to send small text updates, of 140 characters, to a feed that people can view or subscribe to.
There are 2 main streams here and here that you can follow. The Mumbai Metblogs are regularly blogging every few minutes with important information. There is also a shocking Flickr feed of extraordinary pictures courtesy of blogger "Vinu".
Below you can see a map of the attacks:
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Wikipedia is being update minute by minute with the latest information from the ongoing situations. The attacks have involved terrorists opening fire at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station, South Mumbai police station, Leopold Cafe, Colaba and Cama Hospital. The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel has seen shootings, six explosions, a top floor fire and grenade attacks. Reports suggest over 100 people have been killed and that the terrorists have hostages and were targeting British and American tourists specifically.
Neowin hopes that these attacks cease as soon as possible and our hearts go out to all involved who were injured and the families of the deceased.
God bless all those who are going through this hell.
100+ dead and 280+ injured, sucks!
the ordeal still hasnt ended. terrorists are still in the building, people are still trapped in the the two hotels as hostages.
trerrorists should be caught and punished for these acts.
The "Kashmir Effect."
Wait for it.
Who says I'm not sure? I'm just waiting for that line of thinking to finally develop, true or false.
EDIT:
Seems it already has.
It makes no difference who they are. They should be killed or captured. This is very unfortunate to see after 20 hours police/army is unable to take them out.
Hope the NSG operation succeeds quickly.
Twitter users were asking people to stop sending updates and there were rumours that the Government and/or the Military had asked the twitter channel #mumbai be shut down.
However there is no official record of this and Dina Mehta clarified this on twitter. She reports that the news channels have stopped carrying twitter feeds on their TV broadcasts.
just more proof that twitter is a super valuable communication tool
Quoting from the BBC website:
1108 Indian government asks for live Twitter updates from Mumbai to cease immediately. "ALL LIVE UPDATES - PLEASE STOP TWEETING about #Mumbai police and military operations," a tweet says.
on another note, it'd be really really sad to see if this creates another religious uproar in india and hindu/muslim there start fighting themselves again.
plays right into the terrorist's hands unfortunately ..
I stay here in India and every people here are in a state of distress. 36 hours of operation in the city of Mumbai and the cops are struggling hard to rescue the people where the terrorists have kept them as hostages. What only can be done regarding this? And the recent news is around 30 foreign nationals have been rescued.
For people who want to have a closer watch of whats happening in Mumbai may visit this site.
www.ibnlive.com
Unconfimred reports 300 killed.
A tribute to all security personnels, who died fighting.
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