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Breaking news

Updated : Wednesday 30 November 2011

The very latest information – the kind all news junkies hope to get hold of before the others do.

Breaking news has replaced the good old "scoop" in the vocabulary of today. In this 3.0 society, we no longer go after scoops but breaking news.

  • The success of Twitter is largely due to this need some people have to be the first to know. Twitter really came into its own the day a passenger plane came down in the Hudson, when it was the first to announce the crash. How did we get by before there was Twitter to bring us breaking news?

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