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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. Facebook was just getting its first venture funding, YouTube was just starting, and Twitter was still a year away from being founded. An example of an API is when you put a Bing or Google Map on your website.). Google Maps. The Iraq War was raging.