{"id":176406086,"date":"2010-08-04T17:41:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T17:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=176406086"},"modified":"2010-08-04T17:41:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T17:41:26","slug":"injured-cyclist-uses-twitter-for-rescue-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=176406086","title":{"rendered":"Injured Cyclist Uses Twitter For Rescue Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;I&#8217;ve had a serious injury and NEED Help!&quot; she typed.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nFazzina says she tried calling another cousin on her cellphone but couldn&#8217;t connect. Desperate, Fazzina tried Twitter, the social networking site, on which more than 1,000 &quot;followers&quot; had signed up to receive her tweets.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nAt least half a dozen people, most who had never met her, picked up their phones.<br \/>\nMary-Ellen Harper, director of fire and rescue services for the Farmington Fire Department, says her department got calls from California, New York and Chicago.<br \/>\nWithin minutes of sending her tweet, Fazzina says she heard an ambulance siren.<br \/>\nIn areas such as state parks, with spotty cellphone coverage, it&#8217;s not unusual for people to be able to send instant messages or 140-character tweets when they can&#8217;t make voice calls, says David Redl of CTIA-The Wireless Association, an industry group.<br \/>\n&quot;If you are at the edge of a (wireless) network, you&#8217;ll have fringe coverage enough to get a text message through,&quot; Redl says.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jems.com\/article\/news\/injured-cyclist-uses-twitter-r\">https:\/\/www.jems.com\/article\/news\/injured-cyclist-uses-twitter-r<\/a>oldId.20100804174126223<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;I&#8217;ve had a serious injury and NEED Help!&quot; she typed. &#8230; Fazzina says she tried calling another cousin on her cellphone but couldn&#8217;t connect. Desperate, Fazzina tried Twitter, the social networking site, on which more than 1,000 &quot;followers&quot; had signed up to receive her tweets. &#8230; At least half a dozen people, most who had &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=176406086\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Injured Cyclist Uses Twitter For Rescue Help&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176406086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176406086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176406086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176406086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176406086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176406086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176406086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}