Information sharing on Twitter during the 2011 catastrophic earthquake

Fujio Toriumi · Takeshi Sakaki · Kosuke Shinoda · Kazuhiro Kazama · Satoshi Kurihara · Itsuki Noda

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Public Relations and Crisis Communication Disaster Management and Resilience Misinformation and Its Impacts

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Such large disasters as earthquakes and hurricanes are very unpredictable. During a disaster, we must collect information to save lives. However, in time disaster, it is difficult to collect information which is useful for ourselves from such traditional mass media as TV and newspapers that contain information for the general public. Social media attract attention for sharing information, especially Twitter, which is a hugely popular social medium that is now being used during disasters. In this paper, we focus on the information sharing behaviors on Twitter during disasters. We collected data before and during the Great East Japan Earthquake and arrived at the following conclusions:

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