Micro-blogging has also become an important source of real-time news updates during socio-political revolutions and crisis situations , such as the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks or the 2009 Iran protests . The short nature of updates allow users to post news items quickly , reaching an audience in seconds . Clay Shirky argues that these services have the potential to result in an information cascade , prompting fence-sitters to turn activist
2008 Mumbai terror attacks
2008 Mumbai attacks
Microblogging