A recent CNN article wrote about a new service Twitter is implementing, where it allows both governmental and non-governmental agencies to send emergency messages to users directly to their phones. Over 60 organizations have signed up with Twitter and users can customize which agencies they receive alerts from.
As social media grows, using it in ways to help the general public becomes increasingly important. During national crises such as deadly storms or homeland security concerns, social media can be used to alert the public immediately, and likely much faster than traditional media. In the case of Twitter, an alert that a user gets will go straight to their phone, and with most people attached at the hip to their cell phones, this kind of communication can reach users extremely fast. It is likely that other major social media sites, including Facebook, will adopt this kind of service.
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