Catastrophic events create uncertain environments in which it becomes very difficult to locate affected people and provide aids. People turn to Twitter during disasters for requesting help and/or providing relief to others than their friends and family. A huge number of posts issued online for seeking help could not properly be detected and remained concealed because tweets are noisy and stinky. Existing systems lack in planning an effective strategy for tweet preprocessing and grasping the contexts of tweets. This research first of all formally define request tweet in the context of social networking sites, so-called rweets, along with its different primary types and sub-types. Then the work delves into tweets for identification and categorization of rweets. For rweet identification, the precision of 99.7% achieved using the rule-based approach and F1measure of 82.38% achieved using logistic regression. Logistic regression also outperformed by gaining an excellent F1-measure of 94.95% in rweet categorization by classifying rweets into medical, volunteer, cloth, food, shelter, and money. Compared to the previous studies, a significant performance improvement is achieved for both identification and classification of rweets. We also introduced an architecture to store intermediate data to accelerate the machine learning classifiers' development process.