Using Weibo during wildfire

Weibo, one type of social media, has been widely used in China that gives users great participation in social network. It has the characteristics of participation, openness, community, connectivity, etc. Chinese people use Weibo to check updated news any time in anywhere, and now people in different country start to know and use Weibo. People can use QQ or Facebook to create an account quickly.

Recent years, Weibo become an important tool to help rescue in the wildfire. For example, Weibo opened a tracing platform during the Sichuan Wildfire and disseminated information through a wide network of relationships. The official Weibo of the mainstream media such as @CCTV News, @People's Daily, @Pengpai News, etc. became the main information publisher. The first Weibo article of the CCTV news had a review of 2000 times and it was published 3 minutes after the wildfire happened. People can check the news immediately in any country if they download the Weibo, and they do not have to wait the TV news which usually takes longer time.

In the Sichuan wildfire accident, people also use Weibo to ask for help, there were some post like "people are asking for negative type A blood that has a telephone attached to it. "

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