Yet another instance of a private company shitting up what should be a public utility
According to Unseen Japan, NERV is under X’s “Basic” API plan, where it can post 100 posts in 24 hours. This costs around $100, while the next step up requires users to pay around $5000 a month for usage of its API.
Level 1: $100
Level 2: $5000
Also, imagine if an American weather/disaster app was named after a fictional deep state organization. The devs’ lives would be in danger lol
What a great time for this to happen, during a natural disaster
Also is it really called NERV? Come on now.
[Challenge level: impossible] Japan don't lean into a pop-culture reference
I'm sorry but only Twitter Blue accounts are allowed to get severe weather notifications.
Does one of the richest countries and most technologically advanced really not have a public service/budget/team for this? The citizens have to instead rely on a private company running at a loss which is why they can't afford a higher Twitter tier?
The citizens have to instead rely on a private company running at a loss which is why they can't afford a higher Twitter tier?
People used to see disaster prevention-related ads next to those tweets before those advertisers dropped Twitter, right? For big companies like Uber or Twitter (before Elon bought it), "running at a loss" was mainly an accounting trick, I thought
That private company running at a loss.. you mean Twitter, right? 0:)
Germany only got a disaster prevention app (NINA) after the 2021 floods in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Japan does have some civil protection features through its public broadcasting to my knowledge, but I suppose it works like here, that there are redundant firms offering the same service, such as the app of the German Weather Service (DWD), partially at least for disaster prevention services being underfunded.
