CWmike writes "The US union may start issuing terror alerts using Facebook and Twitter, which were thrust again in the fame anew as lifelines in Japan. An AP report Thursday, based on a 19-page draft of the plan that the news service obtained, said DHS is working to overhaul the current color-coded terror alert system. 'The new terror alerts would ... be published online using Facebook and Twitter 'when appropriate,' the AP reports, 'but only after federal, state and local supervision leaders have already been notified.' Zeus Kerravala, an analyst at the Yankee Group, said the official entrusting existence as critical as revolutionary alerts to Facebook and Twitter shows how noted social string sites have become to people's lives. 'There are hundreds of mint of people using Facebook and Twitter. For many of them, it's their primary letter tool,' Kerravala said. 'That means it's a great way to get erudition to a massive number of people. Maybe the best.'"

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