A study by three CU-Boulder professors, including , assistant professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering, has shown that Twitter can be a valuable tool for听assessing damage to infrastructure after a natural disaster.
鈥淧eople were tweeting amazing pictures and videos of damage to bridges and other infrastructure systems,鈥� Dashti said of the 2013 Colorado floods. 鈥淎fter the fact, we compared those tweets to the damage reported by engineering reconnaissance teams and they were well correlated.鈥�
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