In a new promotional spot, Twitter proudly calls itself “faster than earthquakes”.

The micro-blogging website is drawing attention to how tweets about the Virginia earthquake sent from Washington DC reached New York faster than the earthquake itself did.

The spot is, in fact, a rehash of popular web-comic XKCD’s piece on the same subject, reproduced below:



[via Mashable]


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