Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Tweet Tweet, your bank is being robbed
When a bank is robbed you expect to read about it in the newspaper or see it on the news. But when an HSBC branch in New York was recently robbed, Twitter had it first. Annemarie Dooling, 26, was in line two people behind the bank robber. The robber passed a note to the teller who gave the man cash, and he fled.
Dooling, a self-described "social media junkie" was tweeting about the crime in minutes as she was a witness. Some thought she was posting about the crime as it happened. One of her posts, later hidden from view on the Twitter site, expressed her desire to leave the crime scene and go about her business as she wrote "I'm locked in the bank still ... police just arrived ... they wont let us leave the bank ... i didnt even notice and he was two people in front of me ... can we GO?!"
When a bank is robbed you expect to read about it in the newspaper or see it on the news. But when an HSBC branch in New York was recently robbed, Twitter had it first. Annemarie Dooling, 26, was in line two people behind the bank robber. The robber passed a note to the teller who gave the man cash, and he fled.
Dooling, a self-described "social media junkie" was tweeting about the crime in minutes as she was a witness. Some thought she was posting about the crime as it happened. One of her posts, later hidden from view on the Twitter site, expressed her desire to leave the crime scene and go about her business as she wrote "I'm locked in the bank still ... police just arrived ... they wont let us leave the bank ... i didnt even notice and he was two people in front of me ... can we GO?!"
