COLUMBIA — During Tuesday's incident in Jefferson City, which was first believed to be a hostage situation, the social networking site Twitter proved to be a main outlet for news coming from the capitol. The Columbia Missourian updated its own Twitter feed to provide breaking news as the situation transpired.
The Beat: Tweeting breaking news
Thursday, November 12, 2009 | 2:03 p.m. CST
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