How semantics and resilience from Twitter are being used to avalanche awareness risk

Twitter is a new form of communication that makes large use of abbreviations to address specific scopes during the response to natural disasters. During the last winter several short tags in different languages have been used to communicate avalanche incidents, severe weather and micro- scale bulletins but sometimes they seem to be semantically poor by relating them to avalanche data. We will figure out statistics as well as good and bad examples (i.e. huge meanings behind the word "avalanche") of these smart communications and the way to educate people at exploiting them in a more useful manner. This paper aims at describing how a resilient behaviour from the community could affect the awareness of avalanche risk and how it might collide with avalanche warning services in a positive way.