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Mexico: Tweeting to Save Lives

Categories: Latin America, Mexico, Technology, War & Conflict

In Americas Quarterly [1], Arjan Shahani writes about the use of Twitter as a tool to inform “about risk zones and specific attacks in real time” through accounts like “@TrackMty [2], @SPSeguro [3] and @MAGS_SP [4].” He explains how it works: “The person witnessing an attack tweets it to one of these accounts, which is then re-published to a massive audience”.