Thursday, December 13, 2012

Tweeting Every Reported US Drone Strike



One Man Is Now Tweeting Every U.S. Drone Strike Known to Man -- The Atlantic

Josh Begley set out to tweet a complete history of known U.S. drone strikes Tuesday with the goal of doing it all in ten minutes. Except there were way too many strikes to tweet, so his original plan fell apart pretty quickly.

You might recognize Begley's name. He is the guy who designed the iPhone app that mapped all the U.S. drone strikes worldwide using publicly available information. Apple removed it multiple times from the App Store this summer. So Begley set out anew to tweet the entire history of drone strikes, spanning over a decade, from an account he created especially for the project, @DroneStream:

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More News On Tweeting Every Reported US Drone Strike

Josh Begley, NYU Grad Student, Tweets Every Drone Strike -- Huffington Post
Tweet history of US drone strikes lasting longer than planned -- The Guardian
Student Tweets Entire History of US Drone Strikes -- Mashable
Tweeting the US drone war -- Al Jazeera
A tweeted tale of drone strikes -- Salon

My Comment: NYU student Josh Begle's twitter feed is here. I am impress .... after a day of tweeting he now has over 8,000 followers.

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