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U. of Colorado Lab Helps Haiti Victims Tweet for Help

By admin | January 23, 2010

U. of Colorado Lab Helps Haiti Victims Tweet for Help

Shortly after last’s week’s earthquake in Haiti, a group of students working in a laboratory in Colorado unveiled a project that makes it easier for victims and volunteers tweet for help.

The lab, at the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Atlas Institute, produced a guideline for a “help specific” Twitter syntax that allows tweets requesting help to be easily processed by a computer program. The program

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