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s/CNN/BBC/ or whatever. I bet more people still have access to broadcast news than they do to Twitter.

Half of the world has SMS access and can therefore use Twitter.

And how would they functionally leverage an SMS-only Twitter feed to get breaking info to something like this?

Yes, conceptually a lot of people have access to Twitter. However, from a practicality standpoint my personal opinion is that it's not very effective tool for a scenario like this.

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