{"id":1439,"date":"2011-03-16T15:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T23:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2011-03-17T10:33:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T18:33:45","slug":"social-media-helping-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/social-media-helping-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Helping Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/twitter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1440\" title=\"twitter\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/twitter-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/twitter-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/twitter-342x228.jpg 342w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/twitter.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>From the moment that news of the devastating natural disasters in Japan  reached the rest of the world, internet companies such as Twitter and  Google jumped in to do whatever they could to help. Google released a  program called \u201cperson finder\u201d that was designed specifically for those  seeking information about missing people. Microsoft is also offering  technical support and software license to companies that have been  negatively affected free of charge. Due to the overwhelming flood of  information surging through its system, Twitter is doing its best to  control its servers by suggesting that individuals use specific tags for  earthquake information, rescue requests and other similar criteria.  Popular websites like Amazon and Yahoo have links on their home pages  that encourage visitors to give charity to relief efforts.<\/p>\n<p>There are upwards of 16,000 earthquake clips that have been uploaded  onto Youtube. As terrible as a crisis as this is, there are regular  citizens everywhere who are doing their best to alleviate the system  through the power of the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the moment that news of the devastating natural disasters in Japan reached the rest of the world, internet companies such as Twitter and Google jumped in to do whatever they could to help. Google&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[798,800,799],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","tag-facebook-helps-japan","tag-japan-relief","tag-twitter-helps-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions\/1442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}