Re: Learning from twitter in Mumbai

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "charles.brownstein" <charles.brownstein () verizon net>
Date: November 27, 2008 11:04:33 AM EST
To: "dave () farber net" <dave () farber net>
Subject: Re: [IP] Learning from twitter in Mumbai

For sure Tim. But somehow I think the issue is not so much getting the  
government to tell us what to tweet, but rather getting authorities to  
make good use of new channels that ordinary people use to communicate  
on their own terms.

Moving to operationally actionable information from tweets in nature  
is an interesting challenge for even the most cluefull "authorities  
2.0".

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On Nov 26, 2008, at 9:35 PM, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:

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> From: "Tim O'Reilly" <tim () oreilly com>
> Date: November 26, 2008 7:47:11 PM EST
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Learning from twitter in Mumbai
>
> Good piece by W. David Stephenson:
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> http://stephensonstrategies.com/2008/11/26/us-officials-must-monitor-learn-from-use-of-web-20-in-mumbai/
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> Once again, the first news of the Mumbai attacks came not through  
> the media, but through Twitter. India is extremely sophisticated in  
> use of mobile devices, probably more so than is the case in the US,  
> and many Indians are active users of Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and  
> other mobile social networks. It’s imperative that US officials  
> closely track how Indians are using these services during the  
> continuing attacks, and try to glean ideas on how they could be  
> adapted to the US.
>
> I can’t stress enough: people can and will use these devices and  
> apps in a terrorist attack, so it is imperative that officials start  
> telling us what kind of information would be relevant from Twitter,  
> Flickr, etc. (and, BTW, what shouldn’t be spread: one Twitter user  
> in Mumbai tweeted me that people were sending the exact location of  
> people still in the hotels, and could tip off the terrorists) and  
> that they begin to monitor these networks in disasters, terrorist  
> attacks, etc.
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