On August 26, the storm got a voice, and now sends out safety messages to the public.
But that’s exactly what happened when Hurricane Irene started heading toward the East Coast. Tien, who is 28-year-old New Yorker, started getting replies on Twitter as if she were the actual hurricane.
“Btw, tweeting @irene doesn’t deliver any messages to the hurricane. Sorry,” she wrote in reply.
However, Tien’s co-workers at the digital-media firm Huge, Inc., felt that there was an opportunity to do more with this sudden communication connection. They convinced her to hand over her Twitter for the next few days so that the account could actually become the storm. While many of the comments are funny, there are plenty of pieces of safety information also sent out through the account.
