Many people in Japan depend on the NERV service for earthquake alerts. Unfortunately, they’ll no longer be able to receive them on X.
NERV, huh. Are we sure they are just monitoring earthquakes? Either way, if they try to establish an Antarctic base, slap their hands and say “no”
I thought this post was satirical at first before I realized they were a real company 😅
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I refuse to recognize X as anything else then either a letter or in reference to an unknown value.
There is also a great Japanese metal band by that name as well as a old school punk band.
… ok, metal and punk are accepted as well.
Good, social networks use should be discouraged and not used by governments
Yeah, but NERV isn’t run by the government. It’s a service run by a private company.
This is bigger news than some folks may realise. Twitter is MASSIVE in Japan, their market penetration is huge there. Losing grip on Japan would be a major blow to the company.
Also probably a blow to Elon’s dream of becoming a cyberpunk corporate overlord, considering the genre’s bubble-inspired imagery.
It’s the second largest market after the US, but Elon cares so little about it that half the new things since they rebranded haven’t even been translated - my Twitter is in Japanese, and the new “repost” is in English, as are all the descriptions in settings.
It’s going to take a while, but they’re going to lose a lot of the Jp market at this rate.
Huh. I don’t see any negatives with any of those words.
Nerv and Gehirn? Nice.
The app itself has alerts so I’m surprised people are using Twitter to get it’s alerts. I don’t use Twitter, but I didn’t know that was a thing. NERV is the fastest-alerting app I’ve found on Android for quakes here. Good on them, though, for better use of their money and getting off that hellhole.
As others have mentioned, Twitter is huge in Japan. Almost no small businesses have websites; they market and show availability etc. through Insta, FB, and twitter
Is it faster than Android’s built-in earthquake alerts?
50-50 from my experience, but I’d say sample size is too small to say.
