Omar L. Gallaga writes about technology culture for the Austin American-Statesman. He's worked for the American-Statesman since 1997 and edited Technopolis, the newspaper's personal tech section, and ¡ahora sí!, Austin's Spanish-language newspaper. He's currently a contributor to NPR's "All Tech Considered" segment, which airs Mondays on "All Things Considered." He's been a writer and performer with Austin's award-winning Latino Comedy Project, and is a contributing writer for Television Without Pity. He writes a comic strip, "Space Monkeys!" with his brother, Pablo, and lives in New Braunfels with his wife and three technologically savvy cats.
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By Omar L. Gallaga
| Thursday, February 18, 2010, 11:03 AM
About an hour after news reports trickled in of a plane hitting a building in northwest Austin, Twitter has been alight with eyewitness reports, photos of the smoking building and speculation about the cause of the crash.
Follow the Statesman Twitter account for the latest confirmed reports.
I put out the question of whether the cell phone networks are holding up in this emergency situation as traffic is backed up near 183 and Mopac. Based on responses I got from Twitter users, data and voice connectivity seems fine at the moment, although callers to News 8 seemed to be cutting out. One Twitterer said she had trouble accessing statesman.com. Another said he had the same problem with the News 8 site.
Seeing any data outages or having trouble making calls in that area? Post in the comments.
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