26 Nov 08 Indian Government / military requests that Twitter “shut down” #mumbai page / updates on operations

It’s been incredible following the social media updates on the 11/26 Mumbai attacks in India on various channels,.. the old school media (BBC, CNN, IBN, etc etc) is all fine, but hopelessly following behind the social media.

Twitter has managed to stay up (accessible) during these sad attacks in India and the #mumbai tag has been flooded with updates from the ground that the traditional media simply can’t keep up with; be it for school closings, updates on ground activities from individuals, and indeed military operations. So much so that the military forces have asked that people stop realtime updating the operations and apparently the Indian government has asked Twitter to shut down the #mumbai tag (kind of impossible)…
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Tags: Mumbai, social networking, Twitter, Web 2.0, Wireless