Twitter Rescue: Unfortunately not enough.
- Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 11:42
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A British snowboarder has died in the Swiss Alps after online rescue updates on Twitter helped to find his friend alive.
Ms Dewberry started the online updates when she wrote: “2 of our ski party been missing since 4pm. Conditions terrible. 1 guy found but trapped. 20 man team searching for other.”
Fellow entrepreneur Alex Hoye updated Twitter with a series of messages last night, the first of which appealed for help from the online community. “Urgent: If anyone has or knows Rob Williams of Dolphin Music’s mobile, please send. Mtn rescue in progress,” he wrote.
It was followed by another update which read: “Rob’s number rec’d via Twitter; Jason now found using GPS / Google maps & phone (@joshmarch org’d); still working on finding Rob.”
in SkyNews, March 3rd 2009
Twitter is all about “What are you doing?”, but there are endless possibilities to what you can do with it thanks to the wonderful Twitter API! The message content is totally up to you as long as you keep it under 140 characters.
It’s good to see services like Twitter and Google Maps actually helping in situations like these, too bad it didn’t end up alright for both of them. Unfortunately Rob Williams is believed to have fallen 60ft (18 meters) to his death. Not all stories have a happy ending, right? 
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