Camera phones combined with a Twitter account are amazing. One of these days, some average Joe is going to win a Pulitzer Prize just for being in the right place at the right time to capture a dramatic picture.
twitter has its whackos but for the most part its pretty darn good..with any kind of social media(Facebook, twitter, etc) your gonna have the haters, the leftist jerks, but for the most part twitter has been a very reliable source of information. Twitter was the place I found out about the fireworks accident in Simi Valley, called my cousin to find out that my cousins had been at the event and were uninjured, it hadnt even been reported in the local media yet..so yes, with social media, you take the good with the bad