Social Media Globetrotter

Just found out there was an earthquake in southern california measuring 5.8.  At first I wasn’t quite sure what was going on and I couldn’t find much information on the web, so I turned to twitter.  Within a few seconds of asking around I received responses with links to information about the earthquake. 

I was also able to check Summize to find out what was going on.  Sure enough twitter was buzzing with news regarding the recent earthquake.

Within a few seconds I was able to confirm the earthquake and find out exactly where the epicenter was.  I quickly called my family to make sure everything was ok and was even able to fill them in on the magnitutde and epicenter info.  Personally I found twitter to be quite useful in this situation as I was able to quickly get the information I needed.

Just one example of how twitter can be useful

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