The social networking giants have merged to give out alerts during natural disasters
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Mumbai: Natural disasters are more prominent these days and can strike without information. To combat this, Google and Twitter have joined forces to give out alerts during natural disasters around the globe and help people in distress.
A report on Engadget stated that Google Now, Search and Maps will populate with tweets related to a Public Alert event. These alerts can be accessed on both desktops and mobiles. The tweets will serve to answer questions about school closings, nearby evacuations and to display what people closest to a storm are seeing.
Presently, the service is only available to English-speaking countries, but they are working to add new kinds of social content to more places and its other products for the future.
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