{"id":370,"date":"2011-03-20T13:59:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T18:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blinkassociates.com\/blog\/?p=370"},"modified":"2011-04-17T16:46:52","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T21:46:52","slug":"earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blinkassociates.com\/blog\/earthquake\/","title":{"rendered":"#earthquake!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Right on the heels of the Middle East unrest came the\u00a0Great Tohoku Kanto Earthquake that rocked northern Japan. Again Social Media played a large role. Survivors used Twitter to contact relatives, Facebook to organize search parties, and Google Maps to organize emergency response<\/a>. Right after the quake, tweets were being sent at a rate of 1,200 per hour<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The sudden burst of tweets about the disaster made it difficult to distinguish between those on location and those interested in helping. Wouldn’t it be useful if there were a separate convention for tweets from witnesses to major events versus those just involved in the discussion? \u00a0How about #jpquake! for witnesses and #jpquake for discussion?<\/p>\n

This idea or using a bang (!) or other special character to separate those on the scene from the rest of the crowd seems to have emerged from a number of simultaneous sources. Apparently it was discussed on a panel at SXSW (otherwise know as Spring Break for Geeks) which was taking place right at the same time as the earthquake. I saw it mentioned on TV by a startup wizard whose name I don’t remember. However, it doesn’t seem to have taken hold as a common practice yet – perhaps the next political or natural disaster will bring it up again.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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