Twitter's Earthquake crew is on point. Over 72,000 tweets mentioning earthquake, earthquakes, terremoto, or temblores.
(Per minute windows -- at peak, around 70+ tweets per second.)
#SanFrancisco #sfearthquake
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Correction -- it actually broke over 100+ tweets per second. Here's a close up of the beginning ramp-up (per second windows).
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It took approximately ~60 seconds once tweets started about the earthquake before activity hit its peak with a very slow gradual decrease in tweets over the next couple hours.
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Do we have location data and could it be used to triangulate the epicenter with any kind of accuracy?