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It Isn’t All Social Good We’re Doing When Tweeting
by OsakaSaul on December 30, 2011
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Via the ScoopIt curation magazine: Gaming Social Media for Results
For Every 1,700 Tweets, Someone Dies BlameTwitter What happens when you compare Twitter’s most recent usage stats to all sorts of other terrible things that are bad — toxins in the environment, death rates, cigarette and drug usage, obesity?
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Spark Relief
(courtesy Marshall Hayes in Quora)
We are working on solving many issues around natural disaster data management and disaster relief at http://sparkrelief.org and what we saw during the wildfires in Boulder, CO last summer was a huge amount of data coming through twitter, at a rate of around 2 tweets per second that contained the boulderfire hashtag.
This information is helpful, but it needs organized and presented in a manner that people can easily see and understand. Along with information from Twitter there is a need to see some verified and vetted information from credible sources such as the government or the red cross, etc. Accuracy of information on twitter is a big issue, especially during hectic times of natural disaster. Twitter is helpful, but more can be done for online disaster management.
Overall, I would say that Twitter is a useful tool for emergencies. The more people who use twitter have two effects: 1. there will be more information transmitted faster which will make it harder to track all the information coming through a twitter stream. 2. more people will be able to access important, timely information (provided they can keep up with it).
