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Explosion in downtown Bozeman. Twitterers first on the scene.

I experienced the power of social media first-hand this morning.

At 8:12AM Boodles, a very nice, albeit expensive, restaurant/bar in Historic Downtown Bozeman, MT exploded. Two more bars, a children’s apparel store, and an art gallery were also destroyed. At the time of this writing, a gas leak is the suspected cause.

Where did I get this information? Twitter. Thanks to Twitter, I was aware of many of the details (I had even seen some early photos of the destruction via TwittPic) long before any of the local news and radio began reporting it.

Full Story: http://blog.camdenhardy.com/?p=220

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http://twitter.com/superjaberwocky?page=1

Photos of Bozeman, Montana explosion in downtown http://manifestbozeman.com/blog/2009/03/05/bozeman-montana-explosion-rocks-downtown/

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Many thanks to Geoff Badenoch for sending along all of these sites. Geoff said: "I am totally amazed at the Twitter and Flickr coverage of this event. Anyone in the world can see this unfold. Very cool. I expect a lot of comments to be generated by this event and how it is covered in the world. VERY cool."

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