On August 23, a 5.8-magnitude earthquake rattled many parts of the east coast in the United States. As you'd expect, many affected by the quake immediately switched to social networks like Facebook and Twitter to get the word out to friends, family, and followers. 

That's exactly what Twitter shows in this video it posted to its YouTube channel. The video starts by telling the viewer that it took the earthquake 30 seconds to travel from Washington DC to New York. It then shows a man in New York City enjoying his drink and then checks his phones for new tweets. The man then picks up his coffee cup from the table and the earthquake hits, rattling and shaking everything around him.

While some will take this seriously and not like Twitter's attempt to humor people, some will see the real purpose of the video and that is, showing how people will tweet anything, and fast.