People turned to Social Media to give money for disaster relief efforts following the Haiti earthquake
Posted by Carolina Tarrazo in Social Media Donation
My neighbors, the Haitians, were victims of the 7.0 earthquake that occurred on January 12th. The country is devastated. People that have seen the tragedy in television and online and are willing to help. The American Red Cross has turned to social media, such as Twitter and Facebook , in order to make appeals for money disaster.
David Meltzer, from the American Red Cross, says that social media wasn’t nearly as important as a year and a half ago when a massive earthquake struck China. Hundreds of thousand of dollars have been mobilized and collected in only 18 hours, from social media alone.
GlobalGiving tweeted 12 thousand followers as soon as the earthquake happened. As soon as they started tweeting about it in just 1 day several hundred people had re-tweeted them.
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