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Thinking of starting a collection of reporters awkwardly citing Twitter as they rush to publish. Here we see CNN:

Twitter traffic suggests the quake was felt all over the east coast.

In Philadelphia, HunterPence3 tweeted, “Wow Earthquake just shook the entire locker room!”

In Cleveland, “tribeinsider” wrote “I’m no expert but i think we just had an earthquake here.”

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  1. hawksstar said: Now what do you see as awkward in those quotes? They capture the sense of the moment as people felt it…so to speak. You could probably tell the whole story quoting tweets about it. These three together summarize a lot of reactions.
  2. dbreunig posted this