A woman wearing a sanitary mask to guard against coronavirus checks her phone in Milan, Italy. Claudio Furlan/Lapresse via AP March 1, 2020 Coronavirus: How Twitter could more effectively ease its impact Narongsak (Tek) Thongpapanl, Brock University; Dr Caitlin Ferreira, Luleå University of Technology, and Panom Gunawong, Chiang Mai University By providing users with pertinent and reliable disaster-related information, Twitter has the potential to reduce the impact of a disaster. So why aren’t public organizations using it properly?