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Emergency office criticized for sending people to Twitter for Storm Poly updates (nltimes.nl)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Members of Parliament reacted with incomprehension to a warning message from the NL-Alert system that was sent to people in Noord-Holland about the severe storm that struck on Wednesday. People were directed to Twitter for news and updates about the storm, while that medium has been inaccessible to people without an account since last weekend.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Good to hear the idiocy of an alert system being under the control of the current owner is being pointed out. The sooner twitter stops being used like this by governments etc the better off we will be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Not trying to be argumentative or anything, but is there something else (that currently exists) they can use that would get as many eyeballs on the alert? No one watches TV anymore. If they were to use Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for alerts, they'd hit 90% of the population.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

The alert was already sent directly to everyone's phone. The issue is that it directed people to Twitter for updates, when it could have just as easily pointed to a national weather service site.

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