As again terrorists carved another dates to remember in history, the bloggers of India also carved history on the online social networks like Twitter, Flicker, You tube and google particularly google map.

Right after the terrorist sage, pictures of Mumbai were uploaded by bloggers into the Flicker and Twitter websites- they became an information center for inquiring relatives and friends outside the city; information is exchange by thousands of bloggers worldwide before even the International Press knew about the attack.

While terrorist were hurling bullets and bombs all over the city. Bloggers from Mumbai were also busy exchanging witness accounts and information in the Social Network Sites in real-time frame.

Let us take a blow to blow account of the significant roles of these social media sites of the historical Mumbai attack.

Twitter really stood up to its reputation to be able to tweet messages. As the attack was still going on around the city; bloggers in India exchange real-time information in this website at a very fast paced. Thousands of messages from over six million twitters per second (Twitter user) were exchanged during that moment. Twitter became a witness of the unfolding of history… history of mankind and history of the Web 2.0.

An hour after the attack, never before seen pictures were posted in Flickr and was viewed 110, 000 as of Sunday.

Twitter and Flickr became the significant medium of the Mumbai’s attack. Yet, other social media networks also were witnesses of the transcending action of human kind all around the world.

Several videos in Youtube are made available for users to see; though most are news coverage of the Mumbai attack.

A google Map made by a user indicating the locations of the attack was viewed for 40,000 in just a short period of time.

Two days after the first shots were heard, Wikipedia already had created pages about the Mumbai attack. From list of victims to worldwide reactions and more.

Facebook and other social media site even made groups to pay respect to the victims just days after the event.

Web 2.0 changes the way news were delivered. People turn to these websites for information instead of turning on the television.

Indeed, Social Media and Web. 2.0 is not a waste of time. It changes lives. It radically changes the way news were delivered and acquired.

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