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Jamaica, Haiti: Twitter as Hero

Written byJanine Mendes-Franco
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Posted 14 January 2010 14:31 GMT

“I don't have words to convey my emotions at the devastation in Haiti”, writes Jamaica's Annie Paul, but she is duly impressed with the way in which Twitter “turned out to be the only reliable source of images and live information from ground zero.”

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