The loss of this crucial rapid-response platform could be crippling as climate change makes disasters worse.
I called Samantha Montano, an assistant professor of emergency management at Massachusetts Maritime Academy and the author ofto talk about Twitter’s role in emergency management today and what might go wrong if the platform breaks or disappears for good.I think a good framing for this is that one of the most important things in a response to a disaster is communication and the sharing of information.
Then the other thing that is super, super fundamental is who is actually on Twitter. You have a good portion of first responder agencies, emergency management agencies, politicians, journalists, any type of scientists.
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