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Japanese disaster prevention X account can’t post anymore after hitting API limit - The issue has arisen after major Tsunami warnings have been issued in areas of Japan following a strong earthquake (www.dexerto.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Japanese disaster prevention X account can’t post anymore after hitting API limit - The issue has arisen after major Tsunami warnings have been issued in areas of Japan following a strong earthquake::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 358 points 10 months ago (30 children)

Why governments would ever use a private service for critical use baffles me.

Create your own emergency notification system!

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (13 children)

Create your own emergency notification system!

Those never turn out well.

Running their own mastodon instance should be viable though.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Los Angeles/ California earthquake alert system worked just fine today.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Does that go through regular EAS? Wondering.

FWIW, Japan does have emergency alerts on iOS and Android, same thing as the Netherlands and the UK.

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