Over the last several years or so, I paid a little more attention to Facebook—allowing my twitter activity dwindle.
But I was reminded over the last week how powerful twitter is!
I started experimenting again with my twitter account when the information regarding Hurricane Sandy began to flow. I turned to TweetGrid to follow the storm and began to be better informed than if I was watching TV. Actually, I was so informed that I had to go back to my TweetDeck app to slow down the flow of information and follow only what I had subscribed to—Weather Channel and Accuweather Meteorologists, as well as several Disaster Relief Organizations. I was able then to stay ahead of the information during the Monday night when the storm was moving inland.
Pew Research said;
According to Twitter, people sent more than 20 million tweets about the storm from October 27 through November 1….fully 34% of the Twitter discourse about the storm, involved news organizations providing content, government sources offering information, people sharing their own eyewitness accounts and still more passing along information posted by others.
This was amazing to me—once again reminding me about the power of twitter. Since last week, I’ve been loading more and more people and organizations to follow within the humanitarian and human rights arena, and the result have been very positive. Through twitter, I was alerted today about the Earthquake in Guatemala. Yesterday, I was encouraged to write about writing letters. And constantly, I am able to check in to see what is going on around the world.
If you are on twitter I would love to hear from you as well. You can find me at @chaplainandrews . Send me a tweet! I’d love to hear from you.