Social Media in Disaster Relief Usage Patterns, Data Mining Tools, and Current Research Directions
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As social media has become more integrated into peoples’ daily lives, its users have begun turning to it in times of distress. People use Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other social media platforms to broadcast their needs, propagate rumors and news, and stay abreast of evolving crisis situations. Disaster relief organizations have begun to craft their efforts around pulling data about where aid is needed from social media and broadcasting their own needs and perceptions of the situation. They have begun deploying new software platforms to better analyze incoming data from social media, as well as to deploy new technologies to specifically harvest messages from disaster situations.
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