Comments on: Twitter Could Save Lives of Children

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By: michael

michael — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:51:57 +0000

Nate, I had the same idea (leveraging the power of new media to help locate missing children). Let’s talk offline, but I’d like to know if there’s any recent progress with this project and maybe an opportunity to collaborate. Cheers, Mike

By: nate

nate — Wed, 20 May 2009 04:48:04 +0000

Hi Fieke, just FYI, I’m going to respond to you directly via email in a few minutes. I just wanted to make sure I mentioned that here too though.

BJ, I’m not sure if undercover officers go underground this way, but I’m pretty sure they do. I remember seeing some TV shows that talk about doing things like that….

Cheers,

By: Fieke

Fieke — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:00:07 +0000

Hi Nate, I’m following @missingchildren now too although I think it’s of little use since I am located in Europe (The Netherlands). But you never know.

My normal Twitter account is @FiekeBazelmans, but I set up a second account named @findingjoey because my halfbrother Joey disappeared in 1985, when he was 5 years old. We really want to find him because his father (whom he hasn’t seen anymore since!) is quite ill and may not have long to live, and besides that, I have never seen Joey because I was adopted and only got to know my biological father after Joey had already disappeared.

I would like to know if you can help me find the best way of using Twitter to find Joey. Right now I’m not sure that I approaching this the best way possible. Maybe there are tools I should use or people I should follow?

More info about Joey: http://twurl.nl/ll4isq

Thanks in advance for your help! Kind regards,

Fieke

By: bj

bj — Sat, 02 May 2009 04:35:52 +0000

Do undercover officers goe underground worldwide to infiltrate the pedeophile rings to find these poor missing children? I think this is the only way.

By: Webconomist

Webconomist — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:38:57 +0000

Great concept for use of Twitter, I’ve included that in my Blog. I think Twitter is a new tool that shows how we are finding ways to manage our attention and add relevance to what we do with all this information coming at us. It is the 90-Second Economy, or the Attention Economy. It’s not the information, it’s the attention we give it.

By: Brian Dusablon

Brian Dusablon — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:13:00 +0000

Great idea. Well done.

By: nate

nate — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:11:10 +0000

Everyone, thank you so much for your kind words.

Beth, thank you for the mention in your blog. I love your outlook and writings. Thanks for doing what you do (really well).

Nick, Doug’s post definitely hits on a subject that I’ve talked on before with folks like MobileActive. And yes, it could have helped. Actually, even better than twitter is what Verizon is doing with one of the Montana universities. They’re offering an emergency SMS service to any student who registers their phone number with the university. The downside is that it’s only on the Verizon network, but that’s better than Twitter right now. If they used Twitter, it wouldn’t be restricted to Verizon, but right now Twitter is not used en masse, so either way would be fine, and either method would be better than what’s being used now (nothing).

Bob, I’ll be very happy to share my code. Perhaps I’ll just post it up in another blog post soon, or on this website. I’ll have to remove the passwords and such, but yea, that’s no problem. Thanks for asking.

Michael, I love your buttons of hope and your idea of tapping the other social networks with things like this. I think you just gave me another idea for a new script… I’ll have to think about it a little more, but yea, great work.

By: Michael Gibbons

Michael Gibbons — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:03:56 +0000

Nate, it was a great post and Beth Kanter picking it up was nice — it inspired me to write about my Buttons of hope photo buttons as personal billboards (search tools) to help find missing children. I hope you will check that out and if you like the idea help me spread it!

By: Bob Uva

Bob Uva — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:36:07 +0000

This is great Nate! A creative use of social media (twitter) to help get the word out about missing children. I’ve been using twitter for a little while now and your work has given me motivation to do something to tie it back to humanitarian help. If you could share your code with me, I’d very much appreciate it.