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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Just in case you're one of those people that think Twitter is useless

Twitter used to help land plane with aid for Haiti earthquake victims

Doctors without Borders has a Twitter account, and they tweeted their frustration that one of their planes had been turned away (carrying a collapsible field hospital) and had to land in the Dominican Republic to try to make it over land, and another plane was in the air and in danger of being turned away as well (there were problems with planes crowding the available space on the ground).

Their followers picked up and retweeted the info, and a lot of them tweeted to the United State Air Force Twitter account, demanding that the plane be allowed to land. The Air Force replied that it was working on the problem. Eventually the plane, carrying vital medical supplies, was allowed to land. So as far as I'm concerned, go Twitter!

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