Abstract
Background: This article describes a novel triangulation methodological approach for identifying twitter activity of regional active twitter users during the 2013 Hattiesburg EF-4 Tornado.Methodology: A data extraction and geographically centered filtration approach was utilized to generate Twitter data for 48 hrs pre- and post-Tornado. The data was further validated using six sigma approach utilizing GPS data. Results: The regional analysis revealed a total of 81,441 tweets, 10,646 Twitter users, 27,309 retweets and 2637 tweets with GPS coordinates.Conclusions: Twitter tweet activity increased 5 fold during the response to the Hattiesburg Tornado. Retweeting activity increased 2.2 fold. Tweets with a hashtag increased 1.4 fold. Twitter was an effective disaster risk reduction tool for the Hattiesburg EF-4 Tornado 2013.
Original language | English (US) |
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Journal | PLoS Currents |
Volume | 7 |
Issue number | DISASTERS |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 29 2015 |
Keywords
- Communications
- Disaster analysis
- Disaster risk reduction
- Prevention and preparedness
- Social media
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Medicine (miscellaneous)