/tweak-the-tweet

An android app that formalizes communications making information shared during emergencies more easily processable.

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Tweak the Tweet

An android implemntation of a web application created by Kate Starbird: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~starbird/tweak-the-tweet.html

Tweak the Tweet is an idea for utilizing the Twitter platform as a two-way communication channel for information during emergencies, crises, and disasters. Researchers in the area of crisis informatics have recognized that social media sites are places that people turn to during major events to both inform others and to get information from others. Tweak the Tweet seeks to formalize some of these communications to make the information shared more easily processed and redistributed back to the public.

The idea takes advantage of the public nature of Twitter as well as the availability of tools to filter and collect tweets. It also seeks to allow users to inform the public of disaster-related information within (or in a very similar way to) their normal Twitter communication patterns.