Boston Marathon Bombing Makes Vine a News Platform
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Thirty minutes after a pair of explosive devices detonated near the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, the six-second Vine video of the blast posted by Doug Lorman began speeding its way across Twitter and the internet at large. For many people trying to find out about the tragedy online, it was their first encounter with video coverage of the grisly scene.
Boston Marathon explosion from the news vine.co/v/bFdt5uwg6JZ Doug_Life (@Doug_Lorman) April 15, 2013
It was also a new, high-profile role for Vine, a video platform that has primarily been used so far to record people’s relatively trivial daily happenings. As speculation and rumors flourished after the bombs went off, web users flocked to watch six-second loops of the actual events, perfectly suited for sharing on social networks.
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