Relying on Twitter During Hurricane #Sandy
Category: TECH
After my New York City apartment lost power around 8 p.m., my smartphone's data plan suddenly became my only connection with the outside world. Tweets from the community are helpful to get a distributed feel of the situation but they have to be taken with a grain (a byte?) of salt.
By Pietro Rea, Contributor
iOS software developer, The Huffington Post, 2012-11-04