Using Twitter for Breaking News


Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital used Twitter yesterday to break some news: that del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter had joined Google. del.icio.us, the social bookmarking site, was a former portfolio company of First Round before its acquisition by Yahoo. Schachter left Yahoo last June.

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