Twitter stepped into the spotlight this week, not only as a charity organizer and possible advertising goldmine during the holidays , but as a legitimate news aggregator . Lots of tech blogs have been tauting Twitter's potential since its inception, but on-the-ground reports from the Mumbai terror attacks put the idea in motion. In some cases, Twitterers were able to be on the scene ...

Bloggers provide raw view of Mumbai attacks (San Francisco Chronicle)
When gunmen started spraying Mumbai with bullets and seizing the city's landmarks, countless people around the globe turned not to the television or the radio for news, but to each other. Blogs and social networking sites like Twitter and Flickr buzzed with...