Comments on: Social media in emergencies: is there a responsibility to verify? http://sm4good.com/2012/09/20/social-media-emergencies-responsibility-verify/ Exploring the use of digital communications tools for NGOs, non-profit organizations and to support humanitarian relief Tue, 07 May 2013 18:09:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jakob Rogstadius http://sm4good.com/2012/09/20/social-media-emergencies-responsibility-verify/comment-page-1/#comment-144944 Jakob Rogstadius Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:19:25 +0000 http://sm4good.com/?p=2739#comment-144944 Thank you Timo for your insightful post. We will definitely take these reflections into account when discussing how to best refine the prototype and make it ready for "real-world use".

It may be worth clarifying that in CrisisTracker you don't work directly with curating tweets. Rather, the tool first clusters similar tweets into stories, and these stories are then the unit of information being curated in the tool. Without this first clustering step, the tool would be no different from services like Hootsuite and manual curation of millions of tweets would be completely impossible. You are free to consider the workload to still be overwhelming, but at least clustering makes it significantly smaller.

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