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In the new world brought by the digital age, the ability to effectively find the content on web pages, to research the truth of the information obtained and not to be exposed to deceptions, is defined as digital literacy. Social media has positive and negative effects on the lives of individuals who upload all their activities to social media as a way of self-realization is found. These effects, largely depend on users' digital literacy, which is their cognitive ability. In this study, it is aimed to examine the digital literacy skills of individuals in their use of social media. The use of social media was examined in terms of digital literacy in the major earthquake disaster that occurred on February 6, 2023, whose epicenter was Kahramanmaraş, affected 10 provinces at once. The sample of the research consists of data taken from accounts registered on Twitter (X Space), a social media platform. The data was obtained by extracting the shares made on Twitter between 08.02.2023-15.02.2023 from the Maxqda 2022 qualitative data analysis program. The information reached through 5000 tweets, accessed through the authors' official accounts and tagged #earthquake and #disaster, was analyzed and evaluated in the Maxqda 2022 program. According to the findings; within the scope of digital literacy skills, activities of individuals such as creating video reels (reels), tweeting synchronously with different social media accounts (Instagram, etc.) and drawing attention to fake sites can be considered as sub-codes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]