My silicon valley experience

Apparently Scoble was able to get news about the earthquake in China onto his blog before any major news side was able to. How? He got the news from fellow twitterers in China while it was still shaking there.
And what is the outcome? Twitter gets a lot of major media attention and is down all day. Twitter is known to have performance issues and something like this just gave them the rest. I wonder if twitter will manage to get this organized before someone else takes the market away from them.