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Twitter is finally coming of age, and is demonstrating why the microblogging medium is fast catching up to be the fastest news breaker in the world. Something like 7 hours back a huge earthquake struck in China. The earthquake measured 7.8 on the richter scale and thousands have been feared to be dead. The epicenter was 50 miles from Chengdu, which has about 10.5 million residents. 

Robert Scoble a noted tech blogger and a Twitter addict first broke out the news on Twitter, even before the news could reach BBC. I was in college when I first received the alert via a text message. When I logged onto the internet the Twitterverse was completely busy with reports of the earthquake.

I won’t really go into much details as to what happened on Twitter this afternoon, but I’d like you to point you to sites that have covered this in detail.

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The Apple iPhone is slowly spreading its wings all over. After the launch of iPhone in the US, UK and Germany its now time for China to get the iPhone or atleast IDG news thinks so. Ofcourse there have been rumors regarding the availability of iPhone’s in Canada as well. While Apple has already announced that it will sell iPhone’s in Asia starting mid 2008, no formalized partners or locations have been discussed.

Here is what the article says :

China Mobile is in talks with Apple to sell the iPhone in China, the company’s CEO said on Tuesday. But he’s not keen on the type of revenue-sharing model that Apple has insisted on elsewhere in the world.

This is definitely big news for all Apple iPhone fans in Asia. Because a successful Chinese launch will pave way for a Launch in the next big market that is India, and I can’t wait to get myself an iPhone. 

Via IDG News Service