Stop blocking life-saving first aid & disaster-related tweets by excluding #1stAid4 and emergency management-related users/tags from their "twitterjail" count.
Whenever a disaster strikes or civil unrest breaks out, people are trapped and/or injured. They need help. For over four (4) years, a small group of twitter users has helped get first aid and disaster-related information to those without access and in the absence of emergency medical care. This is multi-lingual step-by-step information for urgent field first aid or use in any time of need.
In the urgency of a situation, side-by-side, how-to guidelines in one or two languages requires more posts in a shorter period of time than any normal day. Sometimes the posts are provided for general use by victims and sometimes to specific on-the-ground individual needs. It is dire that they reach the injured or threatened parties.
It is information about controlling bleeding, resuscitation, managing shock, and treating a crush wound after an earthquake. It is about infection control, cleaning contaminated water, preparing first aid and other needs #justincase an emergency occurs. It is about snake bites, tear gas, poison, and burns. It is about heatstroke during a heat wave and frostbite during frigid weather.
Advocates from around the globe share this information in English, Spanish, Haitian Kreyòl, Arabic, Português, Japanese, and other languages. Links are shared to educational images of "How-to" first aid and PDFs with vital information for safe and easy downloads.
Please help us stop Twitter from blocking the provision of vital, lifesaving information! There are hashtags that are commonly used and there are users dedicated to these efforts. We want Twitter to allow the necessary information to be shared by either not applying it to first aid users and disaster organizations, or by not counting tweets with urgent hashtags, such as #1staid4, the #wx tags used for regional storms, #tsunami and #SMEM disaster tags.
Help us continue to save peoples lives. Twitter can be an amazing tool for just these purposes. Don't hold it back by holding us back!