Gustav creates an online social media storm
September 1st, 2008 by Andy Merchant
I have been following the Gustav hurricane updates today on Twitter and am amazed by the amount of people talking about it over social networks and with social online tools.
Twitter has also been embraced as a ‘perfect storm’ for Twitter - A CNN reporter named Rick Sanchez has embraced Twitter with a vengance, calling on Twitter users to feed him information from the hurricane zone.
Twitter says Gustav is the most trended word of the day followed by Hurricane Gustav and #gustav - no surprise really!
Other sources of information include a blog called Gustav Bloggers - a group of concerned techies from the Internet sector who are based in New Orleans and survived Katrina from a New Orleans skyrise with NO DOWNTIME.
You can track Hurrican Gustav in Google Earth, listen to updates via Fox News radio, watch Hurricane Gustav Webcams or join a Ning group called ‘Gustav Information Center - Alerts and Information Regarding Hurricane Gustav’.
For more information also check out Gustav’s own Wiki page and the official Wikipedia page online at Hurricane Gustav.
It great to see people using social media as a way of communicating the latest happening for others that are not in direct contact with Gustav, but want to be kept updated in real time.
Tags: gustav, hurricane, Social media, social networks, twitter
October 29th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
I love your thoughts! I normally don\’t even bother to leave comments, but I wanted to let you know that you hit the nail on the head!