Micro Blogging The Big Picture
May 6th, 2009 Posted in Technology
Microblogging has been used in the US for reporting the progress of natural disasters, but in other countries where violence is more common its been used for monitoring incidents. There’s a new platform being deployed in Africa called Ushahidi being tested, and with cell phones being used by contributors to update the microblogging platform, its able to provide updates better than a news team.
