Remember when everyone thought that twitter was dumb? I still contend it is one of the most important spaces on the Internet. The last two years I’ve personally observed the massive rise in use by our students at PSU. Either way, it is *the* way many of us know what is either happening or about to happen.
via http://miguelrios.tumblr.com/post/9338564551/spread-of-earthquake-related-tweets
This reminds me of two things.
First, a Chilean teen spent $75 and set up a Twitter-based earthquake warning system for Santiago, besting his government’s yet unfinished attempts http://tnw.co/qjREmZ
And this: https://www.xkcd.com/723/
That’s an outstanding graphic. I remember a bunch of us standing outside of Rider right after and I heard people saying what just happened? I responded “Let’s check Twitter to see”