{"id":48361,"date":"2023-04-14T10:45:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T09:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/?p=48361"},"modified":"2023-04-14T10:45:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T09:45:30","slug":"life-or-death-weather-watchers-warn-against-elon-musks-twitter-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2023\/04\/14\/life-or-death-weather-watchers-warn-against-elon-musks-twitter-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Life or death&#8221;: Weather-watchers warn against Elon Musk&#8217;s Twitter changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Elon Musk&#8217;s changes to Twitter will hinder the US government&#8217;s ability to warn citizens about extreme weather, the US National Weather Service (NWS) said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Twitter recently <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitterDev\/status\/1641222782594990080\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> it would limit the number of automated tweets that non-paying users can post to 50 in a 24-hour period. To post more will cost each account $100 a month from April 29.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the NWS said that, since 2014, it has auto-posted the latest warnings for tornadoes, severe thunderstorms and flash floods on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>These warnings are seen by emergency managers, the media and people in the path of dangerous weather, they said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Twitter announced on 3\/29\/23 that it will begin limiting automated tweets. Should this implementation occur, the automated watch\/warning\/advisory graphics shared on this account may not be posted. Have multiple ways to receive weather information and alerts.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NWS Austin\/San Antonio (@NWSSanAntonio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSSanAntonio\/status\/1641870374047748096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Without this automated process,&#8221; the spokesperson added &#8220;it would take minutes for forecasters to manually prepare warning information into a tweet. For every warning issued, seconds could make the difference between life and death&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Twitter informed NWS there are no plans for exemptions,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p>Climate Home asked Twitter to confirm this and received an emoji of a human faeces with a face on it. Twitter&#8217;s new billionaire owner Elon Musk made this the automatic response to all press enquiries last month.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">press@twitter.com now auto responds with &#x1f4a9;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1637420728743088130?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last year, the US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/blogs\/2022-us-billion-dollar-weather-and-climate-disasters-historical-context\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was hit<\/a> by tornadoes across the south and south-east, a winter storm across the centre and east of the country and flooding in Missouri and Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter&#8217;s changes will be rolled out globally and affect any weather service which uses automated tweets.<\/p>\n<p>Khan Rahaman is an assistant professor at Saint Mary&#8217;s University in Canada and has studied how social media is used during of cyclones in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>He told Climate Home: &#8220;The limit will not do any good for early warning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/climatechangenews.com\/2023\/04\/05\/migrant-workers-face-risks-building-europes-new-gas-supplies-in-the-uae\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Migrant workers<\/strong> face risks building Europe\u2019s new gas supplies in the UAE<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Scientists have highlighted the importance of social media, and Twitter in particular, in disseminating warnings about climate disasters and saving lives.<\/p>\n<p>An IPCC scientific <a href=\"https:\/\/report.ipcc.ch\/ar6\/wg2\/IPCC_AR6_WGII_FullReport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> found that &#8220;timely access&#8221; to early warnings through social media, radio and text messages &#8220;can be crucial to respond and mitigate the impacts of emergencies such as floods and drought&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Among the various forms of social media, Twitter is widely used as a social sensor to detect what is happening in a disaster event&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>A 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2007.14910v1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> found that two-thirds of survey recipients in eastern India had seen warnings about Cyclone Amphan on social media including Twitter, Facebook and Whatsapp.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/climatechangenews.com\/2023\/04\/04\/moves-to-crystallise-right-to-a-healthy-environment-spark-tension-at-un\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Moves to crystallise<\/strong> right to a healthy environment spark tension at UN<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Social media played an important role in disseminating pre-cyclone warnings and information on post-cyclone relief work&#8221; during cyclone Amphan, the IPCC report found.<\/p>\n<p>NWS has advised people to check their <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CasftFKZY9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website,<\/a> listen to the radio, watch television and look for alerts from local or county emergency management agency.<\/p>\n<p>Asked why they are not paying for automated tweets, an NWS spokesperson declined to answer, saying: &#8220;Our statement and pinned tweets on our forecast office twitter accounts speak to the way forward on our part&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/03\/31\/twitter-verification-white-house-biden-check-mark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that US White House officials will not pay for Twitter&#8217;s previously free blue tick, which is supposed to verify a user is who they say they are. A source familiar with plans told Axios that the White House may send guidance to some agencies and departments in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk is charging for automated tweets, making it harder for authorities to warn of extreme weather events","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":48364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4545],"class_list":["post-48361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adaptation","type-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Life or death&quot;: Weather-watchers warn against Elon Musk&#039;s Twitter changes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Elon Musk is charging for automated 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