BNO News that is a resource center for breaking and developmental news around the Globe is employing Twitter phenomenon among its group of journalist and scribes to bring about breaking news with pace of light. It has become a very popular Twitter source of news for journalists as faster mean of news for journalist on the Internet. By this journalist does have quick stories hours before, it is distributed among them by press release.

And it is becoming popular with such a pace that, currently it has 905,399 followers. However, CNN Breaking News feed is more popular with 2.4 million followers.  It was Osama bin Ladin who is credited for starting this service as BNO fonder Michael van Poppel in September 2007 got an unpublished videotape of bin Laden that he sold out to Reuters. And realizing the potential, he started breaking news service from his twitter account and after months Twitter was providing 24/7 news updates.

Van Popple and its associates with a very effective process get breaking news minutes after an event is occurred.  In 2009 Van launched bnonews.com with more than 16,500 members.  Van from Netherlands is merely 20 years old and news service editors include journalist from the Netherlands, Mexico and the Unites States.  The editors as soon as get news Tweet it  to the news wires like AP, Reuters, AFP and other known resources without any official confirmation and let it on other journalist to decide upon the credibility of the news.