Earlier today I tweeted about the experience of seeing many, many retweets of the same tweet :  @UMNS: New details emerge on #UMCOR workers missing in #Haiti.

I saw them in a stream that I got back after searching on “umcor haiti missing”  in hopes I would find recent info on the missing UMCOR workers.  When I rechecked the stream several hours later,  I saw updates with the words that immediately stand out when one is looking for updated info:  “New Details”.   My eyes move directly to those words with the anticipation of reading recent news,  before I realize within a second or two that it is a list of additional retweets from other UMC related tweeters. 

I tweeted that it was frustrating to see all those retweets,  but then I realized that this was my experience because of my filtered search. The presence of those 3 words were logically likely to find all the retweets.  And those tweets all go out to a wide variety of followers of a wide variety of users.  So of course,  these are all a part of the outpouring of concern and response and giving,  which is a tremendous thing.   I deleted my tweet,  since I didn’t want all of what I just lauded to go unsaid,  as background to my experience of anxiously looking for recent updates,  only to find that they were RETWEETS of the same earlier post.  I can imagine that I was only one of several that are looking for later, and hopefully good news. 

Thank God that Social Media also are a means to a call to action.