The same thing happened with a quake in Melbourne last week - even thought it was very small and local, there was loads of twitter action.
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Howard Rheingold <[email protected]>wrote: > Search Twitter for "earthquake" today and you will see hundreds of > responses during the first minute after the quake. > Howard Rheingold [email protected] http://twitter.com/hrheingold > http://www.rheingold.com http://www.smartmobs.com > http://vlog.rheingold.com > what it is ---> is --->up to us > > > > On Mar 30, 2009, at 4:52 PM, Mark Elliott wrote: > > Thanks Howard and Nancy! - from the article upon first scan: > > ...SMS and mobile IM messages seem to hold a much stricter timetable [than >> instant messaging]. Almost all participants indicated a punctual 5-15 >> minutes response time at replying to messages they receive. They expect >> similar response time for messages that they send out, so much so that most >> of them claimed that they would follow-up with a second message or phone >> call, if no response was given within 2 hours. >> > > Also of note: > > All participants responded that they almost always immediately notice the >> notification and immediately >> respond by reading the SMS/mobile IM message. In contrast, participants >> indicated they are more likely to negotiate their response time when dealing >> with desktop/laptop IM messages, leading to longer delays before reading the >> message. >> > > As many of you probably are aware of, here in Australia, in my state > Victoria, we had some pretty horrendous bushfires (forest fires) - many > lives lost, completely unprecedented fire dynamics etc. My > consultancy<http://collabforge.com>is providing advice and strategy to > emergency services bodies regarding > options for enabling smart mobs via social media, SMS and other distributed > communications which got me wondering about response time. > > It's interesting to think about the network effects of cascading responses, > each taking 5-15 minutes - which actually adds up to sizable delays. However > this doesn't take into consideration sending messages to groups, or even how > many individual messages might be sent out after receiving one high priority > / important message - which could create exponentially growing cascades of > recipents. > > Of course a major problem we had with the last fires was that mobile/cell > phone coverage went down in effected areas as cell towers were consumed in > the fires... > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Nancy McClure <[email protected]>wrote: > >> this study has a short section on the immediacy of recognition, and begins >> to allude to the impact upon social response. No hard metrics, but could >> lead you to more... >> >> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jasonh/publications/CHI2006-kptang-workshop-chi2006.pdf<http://www.cs.cmu.edu/%7Ejasonh/publications/CHI2006-kptang-workshop-chi2006.pdf> >> >> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Mark Elliott <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Has anyone come across any research on average SMS text message response >>> time - that is, the average time it takes for someone to respond to an SMS >>> text message (not the technical potential speed, but the social speed)? >>> >>> Just curious as it seems like it would be an interesting indicator >>> regarding speed of potential cooperation via SMS smartmob networks... >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> Mark >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ----- >>> Mark Elliott, PhD >>> Director, CollabForge pty ltd >>> collaboration ~ mass collaboration ~ social software >>> http://Collabforge.com <http://collabforge.com/> ~ >>> http://Mark-Elliott.net <http://mark-elliott.net/> ~ >>> http://MetaCollab.net <http://metacollab.net/> >>> Phone: 0421 978 501 (international callers: +614 21 978 501) >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> http://apertedesign.typepad.com >> >> >> >> > > > -- > ----- > Mark Elliott, PhD > Director, CollabForge pty ltd > collaboration ~ mass collaboration ~ social software > http://Collabforge.com ~ http://Mark-Elliott.net ~ http://MetaCollab.net > Phone: 0421 978 501 (international callers: +614 21 978 501) > > > > > > > > -- ----- Mark Elliott, PhD Director, CollabForge pty ltd collaboration ~ mass collaboration ~ social software http://Collabforge.com ~ http://Mark-Elliott.net ~ http://MetaCollab.net Phone: 0421 978 501 (international callers: +614 21 978 501) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CooperationCommons" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CooperationCommons?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
