The Travel Tweets That Twitter Included In Its IPO Statement
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Twitter is indeed a news medium the likes of which the world has never seen before, and a Twitter user's tweet about the Miracle on the Hudson is a perfect example of how Twitter is changing the world.
There isn't much in the Twitter IPO registration statement directly about the travel industry, but Janis Krums' tweet about the Miracle on the Hudson, the safe landing of US Airways flight 1549 on the Hudson River on January 15, 2009, is included in the document twice, and will therefore forever be further ensconsed as part of digital and social media lore.
Krums, who refers to himself as "The Miracle on the Hudson Photo Guy," was on a passenger ferry when the aircraft touched down, and used his iPhone to take the photo of the aircraft's passengers perched in the river on one of the wings of the jet.
Twitter reproduces Krums' photo and tweet twice in the IPO registration statement.
It first appears on the fourth page, even before the table of contents, as do tweets about Hurricane Sandy from Hoboken, New Jersey mayor Dawn Zimmer, the American Red Cross, and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Krums' tweet and twitpic also appe
