"iPhone photo of the day- my son's baseball game was just rained out." (Posted by @nontrivialmatt, Garland, Texas, May 2, 2009)
May 2, 2009
Featured TwitPic: Stormy day in Texas
"iPhone photo of the day- my son's baseball game was just rained out." (Posted by @nontrivialmatt, Garland, Texas, May 2, 2009)
Violence escalates in Karachi, Pakistan
Karachi Twitterers have been discussing the spike in violence, which has mostly consisted of shootings:
pakjourno (Karachi, Pakistan) Editing story on recent Karachi violence. When you look at the root causes, this is something that will take years to fully resolve.
jadoon88 (Karachi, Pakistan) people of #karachi don't get fooled by the word talibinazation attatched to the violence. Its something else.
Jamash (Karachi, Pakistan) Violence, unrest, firing, bloodshed # Karachi had been chaotic all day - very little signs that tomorrow will be peaceful :s
sid_iij (Karachi, Pakistan) the senseless violence in karachi continues. the victims r all the poor and the innocent, young and old: http://tinyurl.com/d92dbn
Helicopters in Edinburgh cause a stir on Twitter
The incident was similar to the Twitter buzz in another city, Melbourne, Australia, where helicopters circled on March 19. That case ended up being anti-terrorism training.
The reason the Edinburgh helicopters were in the sky was still unknown at the time of this post, but speculation was rampant:
andrewghayes (Edinburgh) Hmmm - the royals must be in Edinburgh. A whole entourage of helicopters doing some 'maneuvering' over at the palace.
queens_hall (Edinburgh) #edinburgh Helicopter over Edinburgh could be scoping for tomorrow's 10K TV coverage?
blip2 (Edinburgh) @breakingtweets Helicopters over Edinburgh owned by PLM DOLLAR GROUP LTD -> http://tinyurl.com/cp3uzv -> http://twitpic.com/4f1x5
14zombies (Edinburgh) Adding to the list of tweets about the mysterious helicopters over Edinburgh, escaped con? Govt conspiracy? aliens in disguise? I hope all 3
The helicopters puzzled and even agitated some Twitterers.
gonzo_rosco (Edinburgh) What's with all the helicopters hovering overhead? It's like apocalypse now outside
flickitten (Edinburgh) I can still hear those sinister helicopters... Why are they here? What do they want?! Edinburgh is not the sort of place you see this!
thatscottisheng (Edinburgh) Though royals are in edinburgh - these helicopters aren't hovering over the same bits of town - over medows now
chrisdonia (Edinburgh) Helicopters circling overhead and slowly lowering themselves is a surefire route to paranoia.
alitheg (Edinburgh) #Helicopters have left #edinburgh now, so it seems. As well as a camera, one seemed to have a bright light underneath
dnwood (Edinburgh) Watched the helicopters with Alistair up on the Crags until they left... that was very nearly 45 minutes of hovering. Bizarre.
If you have information on why the incident occurred, please contact us @breakingtweets or leave a comment.
May Day protests spark violence across Europe
Many Europeans also found time to tweet about their May Day experiences, posting observations and TwitPics to put a personal touch on the news.
In Germany:
IrinaEs (Berlin, Germany) today in berlin, the police arrested a man who hail-hitlered the anti-nazi demo outside his house. old berlin-made may day tradition.
alexanderljung (Berlin, Germany) uh oh, now bottles, stones and fire crackers are being thrown at the police (& random other targets)
TB09 (Berlin, Germany) Survived Berlin-Kreuzberg today!First it was fun all along,then it just went mad - stones and bottles and panic and I was right there, crazy
In France:
holychic (Paris, France) All the peepl in Paris are on the street today to demonstrate at May Day protest. TU @maopapa for the pics http://twitpic.com/4c2un #paris
ineshorneij (Paris, France) went to the protest at the bastille today. it was [expletive]. a bunch of people wearing sandals and playing drums. france sucks. :(
In England:
martinrsmith (London, U.K.) It must be May Day // Student protest ambles past // Nice weather for it
#twaiku
stefan171 (London, U.K.) Oh go on, here's a picture from the bank of enlgnad may day protest http://twitpic.com/4cdk7
In the Netherlands:
pndsimpson (Den Haag, Netherlands) Working on this fine Mayday. Can someone riot on my behalf? I'm against everything. so take you pick. Much appreciated.
SmokeRH (Rotterdam, Netherlands) Everythin going easy at 1 may demo in Rdam - some police, some on horses, no presence yet of riot cops
In Greece:
tsimitakis (Athens, Greece) Το μπλόκ των αναρχικών με πολιτικά χαρακτηριστικά, χωρίς βίαια στοιχεία (όπως δείχνει), χωρίς κουκούλες, ακολουθείται απο μεγάλη αστυνομική (The bloc of anarchists with political characteristics, without violent elements (as shown) without hoods, followed by large police)
kapsali (Athens, Greece) Greek police fire tear gas in May Day protest clash http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5402ZZ20090501
In Turkey:
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