{"id":264,"date":"2010-01-13T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/?p=264"},"modified":"2010-01-13T12:42:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T12:42:00","slug":"using-twitter-to-get-real-time-info-on-situation-in-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/13\/using-twitter-to-get-real-time-info-on-situation-in-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Twitter to Get Real-Time Info on Situation in Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About an hour ago I was trolling the headlines for information on the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti today.  The reports were not yet very informative other than that this is a huge disaster which caused much damage and loss of life.<\/p>\n<p>Research done, I was about to turn off the computer for the evening when I saw the following tweet from Clarence Fisher:<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_AuaXW1lVazE\/S03AnAZ2jaI\/AAAAAAAAALo\/oN-cizAW34A\/s1600-h\/haiti_tweets.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 301px; height: 96px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_AuaXW1lVazE\/S03AnAZ2jaI\/AAAAAAAAALo\/oN-cizAW34A\/s400\/haiti_tweets.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426204902407179682\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>I clicked on the usernames and began to read.  And read.  I was especially moved by following the picture that unfolded from @troylivesay&#8217;s tweets.  He is now up to 964 followers. I wonder how many he had prior to today.<\/p>\n<p>Go ahead and give this use of social networking a try.  If you don&#8217;t already have a Twitter account, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/troylivesay\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/troylivesay<\/a> and read his tweets there.  Let the on-the-ground descriptions combine with what you hear from traditional news sources to give you a more complete picture. Let the tweets put a human face on the news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About an hour ago I was trolling the headlines for information on the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti today. The reports were not yet very informative other than that this is a huge disaster which caused much damage and loss of life.<\/p>\n<p>Research done, I was about to turn off the computer for the evening [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social_networking","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}