#Earthquake = #Twitterquake

Jun 23rd 10 Posted by Sonia Riahi in Featured Articles, Thoughts & Opinions

Earthquake hits Ottawa. Bulding is evacuated. I have three reactions: #1 – stand in doorframe (instead go outside due to advice of @sharamamanu), #2 – call friends and family (phone in building, scratch that), #3 - check twitter for news (luckily @sharmamanu has iphone :0) )

Twitter – not the radio, or cbc, was my go-to source. Never to disappoint, there was already a twitterquake of tweets on the 5.5 magnitude quake that occurred in Southern Ontario. Southern Ontario was event a worldwide trending topic for a few mintues….there go the 15 minutes of fame.

Who can blame me – look at all the info and laughs I got from the tweets - (many of them found from @erin_bury “The funniest #EarthquakeTO Tweets” - posted literally minutes after quake).

Best tweets:

Great to know that during an earthquake, everyone rushes to Twitter. Screw safety. - @pushmatrix
5.5 earthquake felt like really big construction equipment going by. Thanks, City of Ottawa, for making me numb to impending doom. - @neilhedley
Quebec is finally separating! #earthquake - @philippec
Dear California: You do that regularly? DUDE. - @melle
Blame BP. #quakeTO - @unbrelievable
Fact: Magnitude of #earthquake was 5.7. Would have been at least 9.7 if not for $1billion in g8/g20 security. -@keithmcarthur
Widespread disappointment across Toronto at news that it was not, in fact, the epicentre of the quake. – @ivortossell
The earthquake triggered a tsunami in the #G20 fake lake. - @AndrewFstewart
Ottawa government buildings evacuated. Productivity unaffected. - @kylemcinnes
Interruption of St. Pious high school graduation caught on tape: http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2010/06/23/14489506.html

And the Entrepreneur Award goes to Zazzle who is already selling “I Survived Toronto Earthquake” t-shirts (available for $18.85), as reported by Toronto Life.