When a Doctors Without Borders plane couldn’t get clearance to land in Haiti (to deliver supplies after the 2010 earthquake), its communications director turned to Twitter for help. Ann Curry saw the plea, and—with an assist from her followers—sent it to the official U.S. Air Force Twitter account. Within an hour, the plane had landed.
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