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So much cash invested by government and companies into using Twitter as a disaster information and forecasting service has…pretty much been lit on fire now.

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During Hurricane Harvey there was a litany of people posting about being trapped in buildings in high water and agencies creating real-time lists of addresses for priority. It was scary but at the same time so powerful to see crowd source rescue information.

On the bright side, hundreds of millions invested by police into using Twitter to racially profile suspected gang members is also lit on fire