PETALING JAYA: Less than an hour after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 went down near the Russia-Ukraine border, news of the incident began trending intensely on social media sites.
At 1am, nearly 1,000 tweets surfaced on Twitter with the hashtags #MH17 and #Ukraine.
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