On the way to work today, I walked past this big group of reporters and cameramen crowding around an Ang Mo, in front of one of the big advert posters at Bugis station.
The kaypoh me wanted to find out hey, what’s the big hoohaa - but time wasn’t at my disposal so I hurried away.
Still, I was curious.
So I then flicked out my phone, did a search on the simple term “Bugis”. A few irrelevant tweets later, I found a Tweet answering my curiosity, courtesy of @UzenTan (a stranger):
There’s like loads of cameras concentrating on a dude that is showing how to use the code reader thing to buy turkey in bugis
So there you are.
Twitter, being other than an outlet for my usual rants, actually helped me with information that is timely, and relevant, although my search term is rather generic.
A Google search, on the other hand, would probably turn up nothing relevant until a few hours or days later.
But the irony of it all?
I’m posting this on Tumblr.
