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| Sorry, Facebook. Hurricane forecasters say if you want quick storm updates go to Twitter. |
That's the message direct from the National Hurricane Center. It turns out the hurricane center has the same frustration with Facebook that I and many others have.
Facebook's algorithms decide what they think is most relevant to what you want to read, and not necessarily a nice chronilogical feed of information onto your Facebook page.
That's nice for advertisers who want to target their marketing to you and whoever else is looking at Facebook.
It's not so nice if you are looking for immediate news updates. To me, the most relevant information of the day is whether a hurricane is going to wash my house away in an hour; updates on Justin Bieber's antics are not so important but what do I know?
Anyway, the National Hurricane Center says if you must use social media to get updates on storms they're tracking, go to Twitter. Your feed is usually at least somewhat in chronological order.
Hell, I often go to Twitter to see about breaking news, so that makes total sense to me.
National Hurricane Center updates that pop up on Twitter will direct you to their home page for more information.
It's probably just as well to just keep their page in mind if a hurricane or tropical storm is on its way.
Meteorologists and weather forecasters who focus on a wide variety of severe weather warnings also say Twitter has become more valuable than Facebook to issue alerts.
I find twitter has so much content of random sorts (I guess I follow too many people?) that it's often unreadable. On the other hand the Facebook algorithms are infuriating and so hard to turn off (sometimes you can get it to stay in 'most recent' mode but it always reverts back.)... I will say during Irene I found Twitter to be really useful.
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