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Dennis Crowley, Foursquare Co-Founder, Live-Tweets Boston Marathon Bombings

Foursquare Co-Founder Live-Tweets Marathon Bombings
Dennis Crowley, co-founder and chief executive officer at Foursquare Labs Inc., speaks during an interview at the South By Southwest Conference in Austin, Texas, U.S., on Saturday, March 9, 2013. The 20th annual SXSW Interactive Festival takes place March 8-12. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Dennis Crowley, co-founder and chief executive officer at Foursquare Labs Inc., speaks during an interview at the South By Southwest Conference in Austin, Texas, U.S., on Saturday, March 9, 2013. The 20th annual SXSW Interactive Festival takes place March 8-12. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

When Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley started running the Boston Marathon, he probably thought he would just be updating his 63,000 followers on his progress and mile times using Foursquare.

Using 4SQ & UberCheckin to auto-checkin at every mile! (@ Boston Marathon Mile 25 w/ 8 others) http://t.co/7DljslVJhI

— Dennis Crowley (@dens) April 15, 2013

After the explosions, however, Crowley started to update his followers on his and his family's safety and the developing scene at the marathon. Crowley may be one of the marathon's runners with the most followers, all of whom seemed to appreciate the live updates coming from Crowley's Twitter feed. Social media has been invaluable for those trying to get information out of Boston, as cell phone service has been disrupted. Below are Crowley's tweets thus far, in chronological order:

I'm ok. about 20k of us in corral just before mi 26. marker. @chelsa ok too

— Dennis Crowley (@dens) April 15, 2013

still stuck at mi 26. mom dad Michelle chelsa all ok.

— Dennis Crowley (@dens) April 15, 2013

FYI no one at mi 26 has any idea what's happening.

— Dennis Crowley (@dens) April 15, 2013

rumor has it rest of race is canceled. but no cell service so lots if rumors / can't get texts thu so can't plan family rendezvous

— Dennis Crowley (@dens) April 15, 2013

god bless you mophie battery park. every runner is almost dead battery. people see me texting and queuing to use my phone

— Dennis Crowley (@dens) April 15, 2013

scene at mile 26 - mass ave @ comm ave pic.twitter.com/EAsdHotcT1

— Dennis Crowley (@dens) April 15, 2013

abandoning mi 26. rendezvousing w family and heading home. my cousin was across the st from bomb - saw it go off- she's shaken but ok

— Dennis Crowley (@dens) April 15, 2013

btw it juuusssst hit me how lots of walking on mi 24 may have saved me a bit. pretty shaken up.

— Dennis Crowley (@dens) April 15, 2013

found my family. everyone ok. chels finished 4 mins after bomb. went off as she was getting medal -- 100 yards begind her

— Dennis Crowley (@dens) April 15, 2013

in car driving home -- cousin Michelle @m2doherty was 100 feet from explosion, @chelsa 100 yards past it, I was 1/2mi from finish. we all ok

— Dennis Crowley (@dens) April 15, 2013
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