https://geniusnet.blogtown.co.nz/2008/12/11/merry-twitt-mass/ Technology, innovation and entrepreneurship in New Zealand. Sat, 01 Jul 2017 23:25:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 https://geniusnet.blogtown.co.nz/2008/12/11/merry-twitt-mass/comment-page-1/#comment-4170 Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:15:37 +0000 http://geniusnet.blogtown.co.nz/?p=294#comment-4170 I think your remarks underline my comments about how Twitter could potentially aggregate community followings that might lead to positive change. Recently some people have quite rightly been questioning how Web 2.0 will make a difference in the real world. This is could be an answer to that question.

]]> https://geniusnet.blogtown.co.nz/2008/12/11/merry-twitt-mass/comment-page-1/#comment-4169 Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:41:41 +0000 http://geniusnet.blogtown.co.nz/?p=294#comment-4169 I’m still trying to resist Twitter, succeeding so far, because it just seems to take me a little too close to just plain uploading myself. But I have to admit that the May 12 earthquake down in Sichuan showed just how valuable such things can be. With the news first getting out via SMS and micro-blogging (Twitter and its Chinese clones), it was no longer possible for the big media to take the approach they did back in the ’76 Tangshan quake and hide until given instructions from higher up.

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