Twitter is not only going to inform you about what the famous celebs and personalities have to say but will also warn about any shark that is approaching the Australian beaches and is 1 km far from the limit line.Several hundred sharks in Western Australia have been issuing their own warnings to beachgoers via Twitter.
Scientists have tagged more than 300 sharks with area transmitters in the Australian region. Each time a shark swims around 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) from the beach, signals trigger a tweet to automatically publish on Surf Life Saving Western Australia’s Twitter account, @SLSWA.
Twitter is not only going to inform you about what the famous celebs and personalities have to say but will also warn about any shark that is approaching the Australian beaches and is 1 km far from the limit line.Several hundred sharks in Western Australia have been issuing their own warnings to beachgoers via Twitter.
Scientists have tagged more than 300 sharks with area transmitters in the Australian region. Each time a shark swims around 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) from the beach, signals trigger a tweet to automatically publish on Surf Life Saving Western Australia’s Twitter account, @SLSWA.
Considering the odds of the occurrence, the project has already flagged a number of incidences of mostly tiger and bronze whaler sharks but also a few white sharks approaching Western Australian beaches since June. Tweets describe the time, type of shark and its approximate location.
Fisheries advise: tagged White shark detected at Meelup receiver at 10:26:00 AM on 20-Nov-2013
— Surf Life Saving WA (@SLSWA) November 20, 2013
In the past two years, the same Australian belt has seen many deadly attacks with the most recent being the 35-year-old surfer Chris Boyd’s death after an attack late last month in November. The number of mishaps were ranging higher when there came a necessity to demarcate kill zones that could warn and protect the beach goers and surfers about the presence of a shark.
Although the number of sharks in the world are reducing every now and then with 100 million sharks dying every year due to human efforts still the use of social media to caution every individual is one of the most innovative ideas that has been well accepted.
Considering the odds of the occurrence, the project has already flagged a number of incidences of mostly tiger and bronze whaler sharks but also a few white sharks approaching Western Australian beaches since June. Tweets describe the time, type of shark and its approximate location.
In the past two years, the same Australian belt has seen many deadly attacks with the most recent being the 35-year-old surfer Chris Boyd’s death after an attack late last month in November. The number of mishaps were ranging higher when there came a necessity to demarcate kill zones that could warn and protect the beach goers and surfers about the presence of a shark.
Although the number of sharks in the world are reducing every now and then with 100 million sharks dying every year due to human efforts still the use of social media to caution every individual is one of the most innovative ideas that has been well accepted.
via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/12/31/sharks-now-on-twitter/
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