"Superstorm Sandy is likely to be looked back at as the first major storm to hit the United States in the age of social media. What has become apparent this week – as roofs are blown off houses, gigantic cranes are split apart and flooding hits New York – is that Twitter and Facebook, tablets and mobile devices, are helping to save lives. It is also clear that the level of meteorological information we now all have at our fingertips is infinitely more sophisticated than it has ever been before." (Quoted from article)