Twitter has become the place to get breaking news first

Of thePBS Idea Lab post Twitter has become the place to get breaking news first, Romanesko says:

That's Chris O'Brien's observation. The first quake-related tweet on Tuesday came nine minutes before the AP pushed out its first story. Gawker's Sheila McClear isn't a Twitter fan, though; she calls it "perhaps the most idiotic form of communication of our time."