Yesterday morning, Americas Quarterly published my article “Twitter saves lives in Mexico”. Apparently the story hit home to a lot of people because it has since gone viral being republished and shared on social networks and the internet at a massive scale (at least I think so anyways).

 I’m glad so many people have found this story interesting. Here is part of the aftershock:

1. Within a couple of hours, the piece had gone to #1 Most popular on AQ Online.
2. NBC San Antonio is going to run a report on it sometime next week.
3. The story was referenced by Hispanic Tips – Hispanic and Latino News Redefined.
4. NotiSensor translated it into Spanish and republished it here.
5. Pakistan Voices discussed and linked the story here.
6. Global Voices promoted the article via Twitter and their website here.
7. Silobreaker.com talked about the article here.
8. BuzzBox caught the story and linked it through its Twitter account and via its website.
9. BuzzTracker also found its way to it and promoted it here.
10. Twitter users have retweeted the story with impacts over 200,000 just on the first day.  

 The most important thing to remember: the story is only possible due to the fact that we have people behind user accounts like @TrackMty, @SPSeguro and @MAGS_SP helping others be safe. Once again, thanks to them.