With a lot of storms moving through Colorado lately, the National Weather Service in Boulder turns to social media to get information out quickly. But it had a snag on Tuesday
NWS Boulder sent out a tweet during Tuesday’s storms saying it was having trouble with the platform.
At first, the limit was set at 600 tweets per day for unverified users and 6,000 for verified users. After facing public backlash, Musk later upped the tweet limits to 800 for unverified users, 400 for new unverified users and 8,000 for verified users. Greg Heavener, the warning coordination meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Boulder says social media plays an important role in helping NWS disseminate information but also to obtain it from people on the ground about storms.
As the tweet limits and summer storms continue, though, he encourages people who want information or who want to report what’s happening in their area to find other means like calling the NWS directly. Jay says as a whole, the public has learned to tune out communications that come through their phones either in the form of text messages or push alerts because they are so frequent.
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