Twitter policy change could affect how NWS sends out severe weather alerts

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – The National Weather Service is letting people know about an upcoming policy change on Twitter that could affect the agency’s ability to send out severe weather updates through Twitter, a platform that’s become essential to the NWS. “We’ve utilized Twitter since the infancy of it,” said Atlanta NWS Meteorologist-in-Charge Keith Stellman. Those updates could soon come to an end. “We’re having to make some adjustments especially on the automated tweets,” Stellman said. Last week, Twitter announced plans to curtail the number of automated tweets that accounts can send each month, throwing a wrench into…