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Saturday, July 5, 2008

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Twittering during campus lockdown

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the University of Richmond went on lockdown yesterday “following reports of a gunman on the campus. As the audience sat in a dark, locked room awaiting their fates, hoping and praying that tragedy wouldn’t befall another Virginia university, they began communicating and comforting each other via Twitter.”

Said Prof. Jim Groom (@jimgroom): “For those thinking about a means to manage a crisis, I would put Twitter, or an application like it at the top of the list. It proved invaluable today for all sorts of reasons, and it made all the other means of connecting with others and collecting information dreadfully inadequate.” Read the story.

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