The Role Social Media Played In The Japanese Quake

The public of the world, businesses as well as news agencies around the globe turned towards social media giant Twitter for the latest up to date news of the quake, while Google immediately set up a search site to help locate lost people. This when the entire world became instant witnesses to the largest earthquake in Japan’s history, an 8.9 magnitude quake and the subsequent tsunami that sent crashing 30 foot waves wiping away entire towns in its path.

What was taken away was entire farmlands that took generations to …