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New Twitter Hashtag Syntax for Sharing Information During Catastrophes

By system - Posted on 20 January 2010

In collaboration with Project EPIC, a group of Tweeters have developed a new syntax to make it easier for computers to read tweets from areas that are affected by a disaster. If adopted widely, this new hashtag-based syntax will make it easier to automatically extract data about locations or the status of a road or person.

Main Tags

  • #need [explain the needs using the appropriate keywords below]
  • #offering or #offer or #have [explain what you have using appropriate keywords below]
  • #imok [name]
  • #ruok [name]
  • #trapped [name]
  • #injured [name]
  • #open [write what is open, a road? a hospital? a store?]
  • #closed [write what is closed? a road? a shelter?]
Read the full Article - with examples of actual Tweets using this syntax from Haiti

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