Mumbai attacks and how the social media became useful

Minutes after the Mumbai attacks, blogs and social networks were filled and updated with live messages. This shows how useful social media can be in time of need. It's so amazing to see how quick everything was organised within a short period of time and yet deliver needed information to people around the world.

For example, they were able to set a list of important numbers to call while somewhere else they listed names of people injured and those who died in the attack, of course twitter and blogspot were the most used. And below is the time line of the events recorde.