HOW HAPPENED in the past (but not always, without which cost some criticism) for the attacks this morning in Brussels Facebook has activated its tool for users who are located in the capital of Belgium, the Safety Check . It took two hours and a lot ‘of requests to sound the alarm in Menlo Park. People who have an account on the social network can therefore report that they are comfortable, they are unharmed and were not involved by the explosions that have affected the international airport of Zaventem, where he would be involved at least one suicide bomber and several Metro stations, to currently only Maelbeek however, it seems confirmed. Across friends connected with them can receive notifications and breathe a sigh of relief. This page to manage the function made available by the platform.
“Facebook has turned to Brussels Safety Check, a simple and fast tool that allows people to communicate their safety and that of others to control after the occurrence of a major disaster or crisis – said a spokesman – in in 2015 more than 950 million people received a notification alerting them that a friend or a loved one was safe during a crisis. ” The wanting, notifications can be turned off or you can confirm, if you are aware that a friend is fine, his situation. However, if the contact has not in some way geotaggato its presence in these parts, the instrument is likely to be useless.
Meanwhile, at 8 am, have begun to consolidate the first hashtag useful to follow the events that are bloodying the capital of Europe. #Brussels After the first minute updates, images and especially the short live video began to circulate through #Bruxelles and especially with what has unfortunately become the standard on the company birdie for events of this kind: but #PrayForBruxelles also #PrayforBelgium and #PrayersforBelgium. All alternate at this time in the most used list. Also prevalent #BrusselsUnderAttack, #BrusselsAirport, #BrusselsAttack, #BrusselsMetro and its variants with the city’s name in French. Content and information circulates also through #Zaventemvideo, #Zaventemairport, #ZaventemAttack and other subsidiaries like.
As for the accounts to follow, are many: from that of the Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel to institutional portals like the Crisis Centre of Belgium, the only one he has sent the premier and the most retwittato from other accounts. Profits also that of the Federal Police, the airport of Zaventem, the Belgian railways, city public transport company, the Brussels area of course the local media, from Le Soir to ‘ Rtbf .
More than the platform for live streaming, live Periscope, has taken a leading role in re-launching of Twitter, who owns it and amplifies the content in the past, this time too also among its users, the fleeing passengers from the airport and later video clips of all kinds from the city center. A steady stream of people who show us first-hand, from their smartphones, the heavy atmosphere in the joints and in the streets of the metropolis: from metro stations barred to flow, often a frantic race, from Zaventem to the hotels clients who film from windows, through the deployment of the police, especially located in the vicinity of the European palaces of power, all the headquarters of the European Commission, to the situation at stops affected by the explosions.
the counters of video mark tens of thousands of spectators for these fragments of reality live when usually private videos they collect a few dozen. If the user wishes, Periscope notified automatically on Twitter the start of the message. So it is easy to retrieve all this content by associating the hashtag #Periscope and #Brussels. Although, as always, we must groped to distinguish content and pay attention to hoaxes: a clip of the attack at the Domodedovo airport in Moscow five years ago would have been, for example, sold as a testimony from the Belgian airport.
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