BreakingNews, on Twitter, posted the Bank of America Ken Lewis ouster just now with reference to Associated Press.

Checking Google Search via “Ken Lewis”,  the story is first found on the Reuters site as an article written by Jonathan Stempel.The 4-hour annual B of A meeting was this afternoon, the post hit Twitter minutes ago at 2:57 pm Pacific or nearly 5:57 pm Eastern.

Searching Google for “Ken Lewis Associated Press” returns a top link to the Wall Street Journal, posted at 12:30 pm Eastern, five hours ago, but the article does not mention the Lewis ouster. The annual meeting would have been starting at that point. Next link on the Google search results are to AP articles posted on Google Hosted News, 34 minutes ago by AP journalists by Augstums and Weiss, with ousted information.

Depends on where you’re looking, but @BreakingNews on Twitter is pretty fast. Reuters dates it 5:55 EDT: http://www.reuters.com

http://www.google.com/hostednews

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Exploring desktop twitter widgets here, since organizing information on Twitter is a bit limited. A new beta worth noting is Seesmic Desktop, with multiple columns, shortcuts for organizing topical posts and for building user lists. Documentations says you’ll be able to directly post web cams soon.  Can post images directly to twitpic with drag and drop.

Seesmic acquired Twhirl, another Twitter desktop widget, in March 08:

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/seesmic

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/twhirl