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Mexico City - Twitter is growing fast in the Mexico, where some government agencies began using the social networking site to dispel rumors and quickly provide information about violent incidents.
"It is not on the shootings warning." The reason why the account (@ sspdgo for the Secretariat of public security in the State of Durango) has been created is to provide accurate information at the time of the incidents, to provide certainty and all the citizensof moderation, "police spokesman Fernando Fonseca told Efe."
Users of Twitter, Mexico, institutions, Governments, parties and politicians account for only 0.60%, while educational and academic institutions represent 1.4 percent, a report published this month by consulting firm Mente digital said.
However, the situation appears to be changing in the Mexico.
President Felipe Calderon, who has more than 505,000 disciples and posted on 1,000 messages, uses Twitter for months making announcements.
The Secretariat of public safety in Durango, located north of the Mexico, created an account on the social networking site, a little more than a week, there are on the "direct orders" Governor Jorge Herrera caldeira and promotion of the presence on Twitter.
More than 2,300 people have signed as disciples, many good comments view, the official responsible for coordinating the account Twitter of Durango, Fernando Fonseca, said Efe.
The project "goes beyond trying to alert people go does not by a place because there are flight balls", said Fonseca.
Last week, minutes after a fight began to penitentiary No. 1, in the city of Durango, the capital of the State, "the rumor started to make towers that there were 40 dead," Fonseca said, but the actual numbers were one dead and two wounded.
Fonseca said he had quickly published official figures on Twitter and prevent a possible crisis on a false statement.
Coahuila, another State in the North of the Mexico, the Secretariat of education used his Twitter account (@ seccoah) to inform teachers in Saltillo, where several violent incidents took place, so that they could ensure the safety of students.
After only three days, Secretariat's Twitter account already had more than 600 followers, who have posted messages of congratulations and complaints for education officials.
A teacher, Cesar Zamora, asked "when will there be real training so that the teachers we will not know what to do in an emergency," while another disciple, Manuel Sanchez, commended the Secretariat for Twitter in his position.
Social networking sites have completed the "information vacuums" created in the Mexico by the drug-related violence, clashes between rival gangs and criminal organisations on the army and police attacks, Universidad Iberoamericana journalism and communications Professor Mario Campos told Efe.
"The authorities of some States have given up trying to inform people in a formal manner, timely and clear," said Campos.
In addition, some media, engage in self-censorship "the absence of conditions for practicing journalism", said Campos.
These factors have paved the way for Twitter, Facebook and other social to gain ground in the Mexico networking sites.
"The worst policy of communication" one can have is "that of silence," said Campos, noting that sites such as Twitter to allow officials join "citizens" directly and with important messages instantly.
The most important benefit offered by social networking sites is that they "Multiply (number) of potential reporters," but "information lack methodological rigour," allowing some false information to broadcast, said Campos.
"Ultimately, network help citizens share what they regard as important," which is the case in the Mexico, where "the problem is that journalism is being reduced to silence", said Professor.
The Mexico has approximately 4.1 million Twitter users, 2.48 million are active, said Mente digital.
About 60% of the social networking site users are in the Federal District, where the capital, 17 percent are in the industrial city of Monterrey North and 10 percent are in Guadalajara, the capital of Western Jalisco State.
Guadalajara and Monterrey have two experienced so-called "narcoblockades" over the past months, with vehicles stolen for drug gang members block streets to hamper operations by the security forces.
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