Twitter's part in the Chrictchurch Earthquake

Twitter helped people in the Christchurch because it gave a chance for the victims or their friends/family to communicate instantly. It gave a way for anyone with an IPhone or access to internet and trapped to ask for help, or if not trapped to tell people that. It allows people to tell everyone they’re ok, or to coordinate themselves. It allows family to regroup, or friends to check if they’re alive.  People have been offering help, or asking if it has been.  Twitter has helped people spread their love and anguish too. Some examples are:

"I think all of us freaked out tweeters need a convent or something to hide in til the ground stops shaking," Bex Davies wrote in between aftershocks measuring 5.2 and 5.4.
"Enough with rocking my bed already," Megan Campbell wrote a few moments later.
"I wanna sleep and this is just making me all nervy."
There have been so many aftershocks since the initial earthquake - at least 200 before midday yesterday - that Cantabrians have taken to guessing the magnitude of each one before GeoNet publishes their data online.
Meanwhile Kalena Jordan, the woman who posted that single-word tweet of warning moments after the first quake, has gathered up other Twitter users' first earthquake tweets and published them in a single blog entry.

It’s also allowed people to talk about it freely:
Good morning from wobblesville. A night of aftershocks and yes they are still going. Everyone just pauses and then gets on with it.
- Justin Hygate (Twitter)
What will all the #eqnz broken brick chimneys be replaced with? More brick?
- Greg Comfort (Twitter)
At around 5am a very drunk driver pulled up outside our house and asked "What happened?"
- Reg Blackwood (Twitter)
hmmm bet John & Lisa are glad they moved - just watching their old house on the news.
- Rachel Ah Kit (Twitter)

Twitters functions are the search box at the top of the site, allowing quick and simple searching of all ‘Tweets’. Also, another function which has been incredibly helpful is the # grouping, allowing instant group creation. Where as in Facebook, the group is created slower, and you need to be friends with people to join and so on and so on.
Twitter is good in a crisis because it is instant. It has also allowed for crises to happen, such as in Egypt and Libya. Twitter is ‘now’ and global, these are the main reasons why it was such a great help for all of the people. Twitter allowed people to organize help faster than txt because it’s to everyone, not to just people whose phone numbers you already have.
Twitter is better than Facebook for these reasons:
“1.Tweets get quick attention than facebook updates.

2.You can follow more people quickly in twitter when compared to facebook.

3.You can have more contacts in twitter when compared to facebook.You can only have a maximum number of 5000 friends in facebook.

4.You are not restricted to follow more new people until your following limit reaches 2000.Unlike in twitter,facebook has more restrictions for adding new people.You are able to send more friendship requests based on the approval of your friendship requests from others.For example,if your friendship requests sent to others not approved,you are temporarily banned for adding friends in facebook.

5.You are able to get other’s updates easily just by following them in twitter.But in facebook you must add the person as a friend to get their updates.

6.Twitter has less privacy settings when compared to facebook which lets us to get more online exposure.

7.Unlike in facebook,you dont have to waste your worthable time like playing online games,useless pokes and tags from friends in twitter.

8.More desktop clients are available for twitter when compared to facebook.

9.Monetizing twitter is easy for every twitter users and time consuming when compared to monetizing facebook.

10.You can able to get quick reply for your update from your twitter network when compared to your update in facebook.

11.Unlike in twitter,you can only send a bulk message to a list having a maximum of 20 conatcts in facebook.You can add many people in many lists but you can only send a message to a list which has maximum 20 contacts.Unlike in twitter,messaging to other people in facebook needs word verification if you send more messages.

12.Navigation inside twitter is easy when compared to facebook.

13.Your followers and the people followed by you are not able to write or post anything in your twitter wall(What’s happening) but in facebook you friends are able to write or post anything in your wall unless you restricted your privacy settings.”