Twitter’s View of the Boston Marathon Bombings (Video)

These days, when events occur in the world, they also occur on Twitter. That was certainly the case Monday, as news of the devastating Boston Marathon bombing broke, and the microblogging service was flooded with information about it. Onstage at D: Dive Into Mobile Tuesday afternoon, Twitter’s VP of product Michael Sippey talked about the spike in Boston-related tweets following the tragedy, and how Twitter’s community parses good information from bad.