Watching the London Terror Attack Through a Phone Screen

I was on the tube when it happened — and the experience was surreal

Simon Pitt
OneZero
Published in
11 min readDec 4, 2019

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Photo: Yui Mok/PA Images/Getty Images

II find out first from my phone. That’s how it is these days: a notification, a buzz and a red circle in the corner of an app. My pocket vibrates, and when I check it, there is a message from a friend, panicked.

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Simon Pitt
OneZero

Media techie, software person, and web-stuff doer. Head of Corporate Digital at BBC, CTO of NSN, but views my own. More at pittster.co.uk