The Winner for First San Diego Earthquake Tweet is…

A 5.4 Earthquake shook San Diego this afternoon and soon after shook Twitter. Just a few minutes in we’ve already seen 60,000+ tweets and growing by the second. But who was the first to announce it on Twitter?

We maintain an ongoing track of earthquake on RowFeeder and found that @ZexionLexicon was the first to mention this quake. The tweet was at 4:53PM and 54 seconds, just 21 seconds after the USGS reports that the earthquake started — aka the total time it take to type out “SHIT EARTHQUAKE ” and push send.

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Adam Schoenfeld
Categories: News

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http://twitter.com/kristy Kristy Bolsinger

RAWRSOME!
http://twitter.com/ZexionLexicon The Cloaked Schemer

Lol xD
Kelsey

One of the many reasons why I love you xD
http://untitledstartup.com Adam Schoenfeld

you won by a full 2 seconds! nice reward for concise writing that clearly gets the point across