Swine flu proves a perfect case for widespread use of Twitter. Never before has there been a method by which important breaking news can spread with the velocity it is spread on Twitter. When I saw the stories of swine flu in the news, I tweeted about it, just as thousands of others did.
There has been a lot of misinformation on the topic of Swine Flu (H1N1), but the fact that Twitter has provided for such fast spread makes me wonder if Twitter can outspread the flu.
Swine Flu Outbreak on Twitter
Here is a compilation of just a few news stories [...]

Jack Walden Murnahan, Twitter’s youngest user, sent a message to social media yesterday that we should all take heed of. The message that Jack Walden sent at only minutes old was not just as you would think, and it should prove to each of us the greatest of lessons in social media.
Jack Walden’s message was delivered more directly to the heart of social media than even the most cleverly devised sales pitch or news story. It did not need to be spread around the world to every Internet user, and there was no attached agenda. It was simply the sharing [...]

On the second consecutive day, it seems that Twitter users have been left to fend for themselves against a worm attack from Mikeyy. Upon a quick review of http://status.twitter.com, it is clear to see that all answers to the question of Twitter’s Mikeyy worm attacks is vague and delayed at very best. Further than that, the official Twitter blog posts have been more public relations oriented with a pat on the butt feel of how it was all fixed and that tweeting will resume as normal from here on out.
Clearly, all of the Sunday April 12 claims of a fix and [...]