http://www.buzzfeed.com/mbvd/washington-state-woman-unkowningly-live-tweets-her-husbands
This article was tragic. It describes a woman who works as someone who monitors traffic was live tweeting an accident one day. She tweeted that there was an accident, and there was one confirmed fatality. The day continues and she explains that she is worried about her husband because he drives home that way and was not answering her phone. She continues tweeting, and later finds out that the person who died in that accident was indeed her husband. She had live tweeted the entire event without ever knowing.
This article just shows how the Internet can connect two people when they have no other way of being connected. She live tweeted an event, and heard from the police later that night that it was in fact her husband, but back in the moment she was able to share her reactions to other worried friends and family what was going on.
One of the best features that Twitter has to offer is immediate response, and news updates. Although the woman was not with her husband when he passed away, her live tweeting and attachment to the situation allowed her to be slightly more connected to him than if she had no technology at all. Twitter has capabilities of helping in situations like these, offering information, news and the circulation of ideas to people who are interested in learning immediate details of a situation.
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