Caroline Orr BuenoNov 17, 2022

I spoke to TIME magazine about the vital role that Twitter plays in crisis- and disaster-related communication — serving as a hub for firsthand witness/survivor accounts, news gathering, emergency alerts & guidance, real-time updates on closures & safe passageways, direct contact with emergency services, etc — and how catastrophic it would be to lose this, especially since we have nothing to take its place yet.

https://time.com/6233609/uva-shooting-twitter-crisis/

Twitter Was Once Vital In a Crisis. The UVA Shooting Shows It Won’t Be Easy to Replace

If Twitter as we know it is lost, experts say a critical communication tool for responding to crisis situations will be lost.

Time
Show threadGrant Jacobs BioinfoTools NZNov 18, 2022

@rvawonk One of the great examples in NZ was Twitter’s #eqnz hashtag, and the overall response to our major earthquakes.

The hashtag is still very popular for the more "fun" side of touching base after a (smaller!) earthquake.

GeoNet and other organisations communicated via Twitter.

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@NotJustDNA @rvawonk you can follow a hashtag on Mastodon and it gathers up all the messages across all the federated instances.
Nov 18, 2022 at 8:44pmWeb