Oklahoma has been hit with several earthquakes lately. You may have caught it on the local news hours after it happened or from the newspaper the next day. But for many that were actually feeling their house shake, they needed to know what was happening right then, but where?
Several people have turned to Twitter’s real-time social networking. Many people living in and around Oklahoma City decided to tweet about their experience and so if you checked this social media resource, you could have verified your feelings there. Yet, these are random people’s opinions and not checked by facts. We need to confirm this with a trusted source.
One new feature that received a real-life testing is Weather.com’s new social weather section of their website. They have plugged their need to report the breaking news of weather reports with the instantaneous feed from Twitter’s social network. Thus, when the earthquake hashtag blew up Twitter, they instantly had a page to report on this breaking news.
But as Weather.com does, they did not stop with just reporting what happened, but went the extra mile and showed information that would effect their viewers. They share their sources to validate the earthquake, display if flight schedules have been effected because of it, and a map and list of locations where the top tweets on this subject have come from.
What possibilities could this mean for the Church and more specifically your ministry?
The list is endless: prayer warriors, disaster relief efforts, and donation drives are just a few.
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