Saturday, March 28, 2015

Twitter wants to help Indonesia in case of natural disasters – Le Parisien

March 26, 2015, 12:39 | Updated: March 26, 2015, 12:39

(AFP ) – Twitter is ready to assist the authorities in Indonesia to warn the population in case of natural disasters such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions frequent in the Southeast Asia archipelago said Thursday in Jakarta on microblogging site boss .

Dick Costolo told reporters that during a meeting with Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla, the two men had been discussions on “the government and working together in Twitter emergency situations to ensure that the population can be prevented immediately at events such flooding. ”

The Minister of Information Technology, Rudiantara, who has a family name like many Indonesians, said his side at the Antara news agency that he expected Twitter the development of information systems that regularly update situations in case of natural disasters in the country.

Twitter is very popular in Indonesia, with some 13.6 million users in the archipelago 250 million people very fond of social networks. The microblogging site table jumped to 32 million users by 2018.

Indonesia is “one of our greatest opportunities for growth,” added Mr. Costolo.

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