Pop Singer Whitney Houston Dies - Twitter Scoops Mainstream Media | Communications Major | Scoop.it

R.I.P. Whitney Houston (1963-2012)....Apparently, your tragic demise in a Hollywood bathtub broke over the Twitterverse a full 27 minutes before it was reported by the Associated Press. Mashable.com has dug even further into Twitter archives (yes, anything that happened more than an hour ago is considered an archive in this fast-paced social media society we inhabit) to find an even earlier tweet.