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  • By Jean Gruss
  • | 7:54 a.m. November 1, 2013
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Some of the first news reports of the Boston Marathon bombing didn't come from any traditional news source. Instead, they popped up on Twitter and Instagram, two popular social media services where people can post messages, photos and videos almost instantaneously from their mobile phones.

 

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