tweeting hell! what the tweet will they tweet of next?
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Twitter has brought its emergency alert system to the UK and Ireland after it kicked off in the US, Japan and South Korea in September. The microblogging site has signed up Blighty's coppers, firefighters and other government agencies so they can tweet urgent messages at the country in times of crisis, or at least the small …
I'm not a keen twitterer so don't really understand the details. Does twitter know your geographical location? If not, surely it's pretty pointless for folks in Aberdeen to get an alert about a lost cat in godalming or a nerve gas attack in Westminster. If they can't focus then there will rapidly be a 'boy who cried wolf' situation.
Is a number of large loudspeakers in place all over the country on public building to send out a warning might work better as they:
a)can't be turned off when in a meeting
b)you won't miss the vibration alert when on the train
c)won't require people to have to join Twitter and
d) worked pretty well during two world wars.
Plus of course the problem is Twitter is only useful until the next big thing comes around. Mushroom cloud pictures on Instagram anyone?