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Twitter limits that snarled NWS July Fourth storm-tracking raise public safety concerns

Since 2006, government agencies increasingly have relied on Twitter as a radar system and for crisis communications

FILE – A sign at Twitter headquarters is shown in San Francisco on Nov. 18, 2022. Thousands of people logged complaints about problems accessing Twitter on Saturday, July 1, 2023, after owner Elon Musk limited most users to viewing 600 tweets a day — restrictions he described as an attempt to prevent unauthorized scraping of potentially valuable data from the site. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
FILE – A sign at Twitter headquarters is shown in San Francisco on Nov. 18, 2022. Thousands of people logged complaints about problems accessing Twitter on Saturday, July 1, 2023, after owner Elon Musk limited most users to viewing 600 tweets a day — restrictions he described as an attempt to prevent unauthorized scraping of potentially valuable data from the site. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
Bruce Finley of The Denver Post
By | bfinley@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
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“Twitter's new post-viewing limits serve as a reminder for people to have multiple ways of receiving weather information."
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