Twitter Emergency Alerts Now Available In The U.S., UK, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Australia And Brazil

Twitter’s Alerts service, the emergency broadcast system which launched back in September, has rolled out to Australia and Brazil. Alongside the U.S., UK, Ireland, Japan and Korea, this brings the total number of countries with coverage to seven.

On their official blog, Twitter has outlined how alerts will work in the new territories:

In Brazil, people can now choose to receive alerts from Centro de Operações da Prefeitura do Rio de Janeiro (COR), which integrates data from around 30 entities including municipal and state departments and essential services.