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Facebook Tracks Status Updates About Earthquake, Tsunami in Japan

by Caleb Johnson on March 14, 2011 at 02:40 PM

Facebook tracks earthquake and tsunami status updates.
The Global Disaster Relief Facebook page has posted a set of time-stamped maps that show how news spread through status updates about the earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan. The site found that 4.5 million updates from 3.8 million users around the globe contained the words "Japan," "earthquake" or "tsunami" in the aftermath of the disaster. Many of the updates originated from places affected (or potentially affected) by the tragic event, but were not limited to those areas.

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