Published: Sept. 3, 2014

A study by three ֱ-Boulder professors, including , assistant professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering, has shown that Twitter can be a valuable tool forassessing damage to infrastructure after a natural disaster.

“People were tweeting amazing pictures and videos of damage to bridges and other infrastructure systems,” Dashti said of the 2013 ֱ floods. “After the fact, we compared those tweets to the damage reported by engineering reconnaissance teams and they were well correlated.”

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