His rival, Mitt Romney ( posted: “In remembrance, let us recall what the flag symbolizes & the many who have sacrificed so that we may fly it proudly.” President Barack Obama ( tweeted: “As painful as this day is and always will be, it leaves us with the lesson that no act of terrorism can ever change what we stand for.” Others posted sayings such as “Never Forget,” and still others, their remembrances of people who perished that day.Įven politicians took a break from the campaign to offer their remembrances on Twitter. It never happened.”įacebook users posted photos of how Lower Manhattan looked with the Twin Towers and how it looked Tuesday morning.
Some people tweeted about where they were when they first got news about the “This time 11 years ago I was working on a presentation for a uni English course. It was the social media version of a reading of names. Each tweet linked to a poignant Facebook page about an officer. The New York Police Department memorialized fallen officers through a Twitter campaign with the hashtag #neverforget. “Social media provides the opportunity to find those issues you are concerned about.” “There are so many moments we have let go because in the mental consciousness of our society, sometimes we forget things,” he said. “If the public comments did not exist, then you would not have the same attention on 9/11,” said Sanford Dickert, a social media technology expert. “There’s a lot of trending now on Twitter which shows it’s a lot more durable than the media would believe at this point,” Carey said.Īmong trending topics Tuesday were WTC, 11S, Remember911, Iraq, New York City, R.I.P and Bush. But you could get out your phone and tweet what you remembered about that moment. Maybe you weren’t going to the local remembrance and hear the bells toll at 8:46 a.m., the time American Airlines Flight 11 slammed into the North Tower. Social media was a way for people to express their emotions when there were fewer physical ways to do so, said Robin Carey, CEO of Social Media Today. But memories of that horrific day were kept alive Tuesday via smartphone, tablets and computers. 9/11 did not transpire in social media real time as many news events today do.
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Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus and Instagram did not exist 11 years ago. But there was one place where the tragedy was hard to miss – on social media.
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