Twitter Message Sparks Big Rescue Effort

Cognoscetis veritatem, et veritas liberabit vos. (John 8:32)

AOL News reports that thanks to a single Twitter message, an astounding emergency response network was built from scratch, in the wake of Haiti's devastating January 12 earthquake.

The day after the 7.0 quake, 24-year-old Washington, D.C., resident Josh Nesbit felt an intense desire to help those in need.

Nesbit is co-founder of FrontlineSMS:Medic, a nonprofit that utilizes Short Message Service (SMS) technology to improve medical care in developing nations.

Nesbit said: "The idea was to reach out to people to set up a gateway where people could share information".

Jean-Marc Castera is a Haitian network engineer for Digicel, the Caribbean's largest wireless carrier.

Castera said: "A friend of mine told me about Josh and his team, their project and goals".

Castera said: "I immediately realized how critical this could be to saving lives on the ground, so I got in touch with him on Twitter".

It's great that Twitter effectively can serve the humanitarian cause in Haiti.

"In spem vitae aeternae, quam promisit, qui non mentitur, Deus ante tempora saecularia", Titus 1:2.