Fanfou report earthquake first, in 57 seconds

China-based twitter simulator fanfou published a post today on how soon did their users report earthquake in China. Obviously, fanfou wrote this post with a purpose that they want to show confidence that their platform is no less efficient than twitter (especially on disaster reporting), and also indicating they have a relatively large scale of local users in China.

Showing below is the translated from fanfou development blog.

According to the CENC, a magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck Siping City, Jilin Province at 2009-03-20 14:48:52.9

The first earthquake related message appeared in fanfou was at 2009-03-20 14:49 (database shows the accurate time is 14:49:49 )

In another words, fanfou user“红棉812” reported the earthquake in 57 seconds! Later on, more and more messages about this quake from other fanfou users has been coming out:

People who are concerned with the Jilin earthquake can try fanfou search to be updated with the latest news.
http://fanfou.com/q/地震