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One of the most popular uses of Twitter is to report emergency situations. This included the plane landing in the Hudson River and fires in Los Angeles. The Indonesian presidential advisor for social welfare Andi Arief uses Twitter often to report earthquakes, floods, and tsunamis hitting the country. Arief’s Twitter account was hacked and sent out a status that said “Besok jakarta tsunami [translates to "Jakarta tsunami tomorrow].”
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