Active shooter shot in SW Denver.

[UrbanWolf]

No wonder i saw 10 cop cars rushing with siren and light this morning on Federal.

[Ridge]

"Denver Police tweeted at 11:16 a.m. that the shooter was "down." The gunman was taken to the hospital in critical condition."

The police tweet now? The world gets lamer every day.

Twitter is stupid for celebrities, but for public service announcements, there is no faster way to get the word out to the maximum number of people.

[skullybones]

Twitter is stupid for celebrities, but for public service announcements, there is no faster way to get the word out to the maximum number of people.

Good point. Still not signing up though.

[Mtn.man]

Only tweet'n up here is from the birdies.

[Gman]

You can keep the web 2.0 shhhtuff. I'm not missing anything.

[cmailliard]

Two thoughts, first on the incident - Active Shooter is becoming a way overused term. I hate the term active shooter anyway, Mass Violence is more appropriate for incidents like Newtown, Aurora, Columbine, Boston.

Twitter - It is the fastest way to get information, hands down. The media get their info that they report on the news from Twitter, so why wait for them to report "Twitter said this" That is not reporting that is regurgitation. Go to the source for the best most accurate info. You must follow the real sources of info though, not the BS people retweeting everything. I follow Colorado OEM, Adams County Sheriff, Jefferson County Sheriff, Larimer County Sheriff, and others where I live and work. I think I follow about 20 different agencies. That is what I use Twitter for, real time emergency info.

The reason it works is this - Take High Park, Waldo Canyon, etc., you have whistledicks posting hearsay information about the incident so in order to make sure the public is getting accurate information the agencies involved must get fast accurate info out of their own. The Public Information Officers for these agencies fight to gain control of the hashtags with real info, so info is actually shared faster with Twitter than before, therefore you have more accurate info in more timely manner.

If you use Twitter for nothing else use it for this, remember information is power, don't limit yourself just because you don't like it.

All that said Twitter can be bad if you follow the whistledicks. During Sandy FEMA had to create a website just to deal with all the bad rumors going around the twitterverse.

[Ridge]

You can keep the web 2.0 shhhtuff. I'm not missing anything.

Web 2.0 was like 8 years ago. We're at least at Web v.4 now

[Squeeze]

Two thoughts, first on the incident - Active Shooter is becoming a way overused term. I hate the term active shooter anyway, Mass Violence is more appropriate for incidents like Newtown, Aurora, Columbine, Boston.

I agree. I also like Dr. Grossman's reference: Active Murderer. I'm good with that. Call it like it is.

[BREATHER]

They're getting smarter and "they" are being coached... "They" are going to now focus on another type of firearm.... It's not going to be a battle of terms and description...

[Ridge]

I agree. I also like Dr. Grossman's reference: Active Murderer. I'm good with that. Call it like it is.

Grossman?