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Hurricane Sandy & Social Media: 5 Must-Reads

Firebelly

Hurricane Sandy: NYC tweets, Instagrams, and crowdsources an unfolding disaster. By Adi Robertson From tweets to SMS to data dumps, social media goes broad and deep in a disaster. ” A handy Web guide to tracking Hurricane Sandy.

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Keeping an Eye on Everything

Net-Savvy Executive

The map equivalent of a Twitter search is Ushahidi , a crowdsourced crisis monitoring platform that maps reports sent in my email, Twitter, SMS, and probably semaphore in the next version. As we've seen in other domains, software doesn't replace analysts ; it gives them new tools and data to work with.