Disaster Relief Needs X (You should use it too)

Why Are You Still Waiting for Headlines?

Picture this: you’re having a heart attack or stroke. Your chest tightens, your vision blurs. In a panic, instead of dialing 911, you call your local newspaper. You gasp out your symptoms and address. The editor listens, then says they’ll discuss it with the team. They decide it’s a decent story—worthy of page 7 in tomorrow’s edition. Sixteen hours later, your plight is printed. The fire chief grabs the paper, skims the front page, flips to page 7, and spots your story. He scrambles to alert his crew, but by the time they reach you, it’s far too late.

This sounds absurd, right? Yet it’s not far from reality when you rely on traditional news to stay informed.

If your job demands knowing what’s happening right now, you need to be on X.
If you want to see every angle of a story—raw, unfiltered, and direct—you need to be on X.
If you want to know what’s breaking hours or even days before it hits the headlines, you need to be on X.

Don’t wait for tomorrow’s paper.

Disaster Relief Needs X

Every second that passes after a disaster is critical for victims that need food, water, and medical attention. The information you can find on social media is why we have worked so hard to tie it into our tool and resources.

Get on the ground reporting, photos, videos, needs assessments and more.

Who to Follow

Know before anyone else…

If WWIII starts a million people will know on X before our ranking generals get their first briefing. News really does travel that fast. You’ll see videos of the rockets, pictures of the damage, and reactions from politicians in real time.

How do I know?

Because it’s happening with every war right now. Israel & Gaza the second rockets are launched you can see in near real time them streaking across the sky.

Ukraine & Russia? I knew 4 hours before how much of the Russian fleet was destroyed before the media wrote their first story. Even after they wrote the story I had still seen better video footage and more context than any of the articles posted.

What about misinformation? Community notes have been a huge help for this! They correct lies within minutes to hours of false stories being published, the same can’t be said about the media.

Grok AI

AI is evolving rapidly with real time searches but most AIs (like ChatGPT and Googles AI) give summaries that are just guesses with a lot of wrong information.

Grok (Twitters AI) is great at pulling up and CITING its sources. You can ask it for a summary of damage reports and it will link directly to news articles from the internet and real posts from their users.

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