The final battle for Tripoli is all but over, but I have been watching the developments with interest. Twitter seems to be one of the main sources of information, with almost continual tweets, though most tweets last night (Brisbane time) were from spectators in other counties, sometimes with a direct tie to Libya.
Through the haze of contradictory information, it was obvious that something significant was happening, hours ahead of any formal news announcement. I was particularly interested in the information flow from #mermaiddawn on Twitter and the continuosly updated conflict information on Google Maps.
Twitter gave a link to a Google Map that was updated every few minutes, Gaddafi’s forces were coloured green, the opposition red and undecided yellow. This is how it looks now, with the old Libyan fag over Tripoli and no green pointers to be seen, though the Tweets above indicate intense fighting is still occurring. (FF is Freedom Fighters)
I found a sense of directness when reading a Tweet from someone asking for help for someone who was injured or giving the co-ordinates of a rooftop sniper. It still had a surreal quality to it.
