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Orange County Register Using Twitter for Fire Coverage

By Paul Grabowicz

Published November 15, 2008 in Social Networking Web Tools

The Orange County Register is using a Twitter feed to provide reports by people in Orange County about the huge fire there.

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1) Mat Encinas, June 12, 2009 at 9:39 p.m. [Link]

That's interesting. I haven't heard that the Orange County Register is using Twitter for fire reports. It is a pretty good idea, but I live in Orange County and I have not heard anything about the service. I can't see it helping anyone unless they are actively marketing the information.

Thanks for the post. I will definetly be using the service.

cheers,

2) Paul Grabowicz, July 1, 2009 at 9:08 a.m. [Link]

Mat -

The Register launched this back in November 2008 when covering the major fires that hit the area then. I don't know how they tried to get the word out about their Twitter feed at the time.

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