Micro-blogging time over the hurricane

Hurricane Irene has weakened into a tropical storm on August 29 and has started to walk leisurely through New York at 13 miles per hour (about 21 kilometers), according to a web version of the New York Times newspaper. While a lot of New Yorkers are still at home, Twitter has become a big chat room for their boring time, tweeting, forwarding, and commenting on Twitter.

It seems everyone is talking about Hurricane Irene on Twitter, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has also issued a hurricane warning on his Twitter, and the news media has also used Twitter as a journalist's notepad, Share every movement and devastation caused by hurricanes.

Screenshots in the movie "The Day After Tomorrow"

Many of the boring New Yorkers who had been dwelling for 24 hours intercepted a large number of pictures from the day after tomorrow, including a scene of the Statue of Liberty being swallowed up by huge waves. Twitter has often become a platform for breaking news, but it has also become a place where many false messages are published.

Some people on Twitter accuse the TV news anchors of wearing raincoats into the streets and docks when Hurricane Irene is hundreds of miles away, which is like acting.

A false picture of Hurricane Irene approaching North Carolina State

A picture of Hurricane Irene approaching North Carolina State began to spread on social networks in late Saturday and was quickly shared by thousands of people. The picture looks scary, but the problem is that the photograph was actually taken a few weeks ago in Pensacola, the northwestern seaport of Florida State, Pensacola with Hurricane Irene. However, the photo was browsed 270,000 times on the Twitter image site Twitpic.

Another picture, apparently taken during the flood of New York's East River, began to spread on Twitter in the morning of Saturday. The photo was also a prank, not filmed in North Carolina State hours ago, in a storm that New York had suffered before.

There is also a picture depicting the flood of Times Square subway station in New York, where someone said on Twitter that the photo was taken a few years ago. Most photos are hard to discern.

But not everyone in New York is entertaining themselves. Sarah Cooley, a social media consultant, wrote on Twitter: "I know it's New York, I'm not joking," Cooley. New York floods have flooded many parts of the region, and south-east Island Long I. have also suffered severe attacks. ”