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Social media has been used before to report and respond to disasters. Blogs and Wikipedia helped spread information about the 2004 tsunami and Ushahidi, an open-source project launched after a disputed election in Kenya, has been deployed in response to the Haitian earthquake and Japan’s series of disasters earlier this year.
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Chasing Hurricanes on Twitter - The New Yorker
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Social media has been used before to report and respond to disasters. Blogs and Wikipedia helped spread information about the 2004 tsunami and Ushahidi, an open-source project launched after a disputed election in Kenya, has been deployed in response to the Haitian earthquake and Japan’s series of disasters earlier this year.
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