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The US
Government has been using a variety of social media networking
tools to ensure the message about the recent Salmonella outbreak in peanut butter
is communicated widely.

“….Officials with Health and Human Services Department and the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention said social media helped them spread the word that peanut butter
recall. The agencies used widgets, blogs, Twitter, podcasts, mobile alerts and online
videos to warn the public that peanut butter manufactured by Peanut Corp. of America
for institutional use and for additives in other products such as snacks may be tainted
with salmonella. Eight people died and 500 were sickened by the infected peanut butter….”