New Twitter rules and fees will limit the National Weather Service's ability to warn the public about tornadoes, storms and floods, meteorologists say.
NPR announced Wednesday that its Twitter accounts would no longer be active out of concern that the social network was “undermining our credibility.”Brad Panovich, a meteorologist at WCNC-TV in Charlotte, said automated weather alerts he shares on Twitter don’t just go to his 114,000 followers, but also to his station’s website and app. The loss of those tweets could further damageTwitter did not respond to questions about the impact the changes could have on public safety.
While Spann doesn’t use automated tweets on his own account, with nearly 500,000 followers, he directs followers to an automated account run by ABC 33/40. Any channel to reach people in harm’s way can help, he said.“It’s an important tool, and I don’t want it to go away,” Spann said. “I want it to be robust, and I want it to be reliable.”
During a severe weather and tornado outbreak April 5-6, for example, the Weather Service’s Jackson, Miss., forecast office sent 64 automated tweets in rapid succession. At the St. Louis forecast office, automated tweets — both in English and Spanish — also numbered more than 60 on April 5. Daryl Herzmann, a systems analyst at the University of Iowa, said the burden of manually sharing so many weather alerts is the reason he has developed a stable of accounts sharing them via automated tweets. Herzmann operates the Iowa Environmental Mesonet, a repository for environmental weather data that is widely used by meteorologists nationwide and supports many automated Twitter feeds.
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