If Twitter is the medium of immediacy, of short memory, it can also save lives. The application can indeed become an alert support and effective communication in disaster. This is the principle that will be applied in Indonesia, a country frequently hit by natural disasters (earthquakes, volcanic eruptions ..).
Twitter has made an agreement with the government of the archipelago ” Twitter and the government working together in situations
emergency, to ensure that people can be prevented
immediately at events like floods, “said the boss of Jakarta microblogging site, Dick Costolo.
The Minister of the country’s Information Technology has said his side to the agency Antara news he expected the Twitter development of information systems that regularly update situations in case of natural disaster in the country. The idea is to provide alerts and notifications the most reactive possible.
I must say that Twitter is already very popular in Indonesia, with some 13.6 million users in a population of 250 million people. Behind the right action, Twitter does not hide its ambitions Indonesia is “one of our greatest growth opportunities,” said Dick Costolo which expects a jump to 32 million users by 2018
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