These Sharks Use Twitter To Warn Swimmers Of Their Approach

[Davey Woo]

How long before people (probably tourists) start flooding to beaches where a shark has triggered the tweet just to see if they can catch a glimpse of one.

 

[Psychobabble]

How long before people (probably tourists) start flooding to beaches where a shark has triggered the tweet just to see if they can catch a glimpse of one.

'bout twenty seconds. Forty before the first nimrod decides to go and make fiends with them only to "become one with the sharks" in a very different way than intended.

 

[Ratties]

Shark tweet.

"Stay out of the ocean you dumb fuck."

 

[FalloutJack]

Is this going to be any help to people who are in the water already as the sharks are tweeting into range?

 

[Evil Smurf]

#Omnomnom

...

Y'know, whenever the whole internet thing of Australian-animals-are-crazy-deadly comes up, I can never decide whether to point out that it's not true or to joke about only having been attacked twice this week.

Sharks are harmless, although drop bears have knives and have a taste for human flesh.

 

[Racecarlock]

"Smile you son of a *****!"

Jawz: "lol just got blwn up by oxygen tank nd ak47 rofl"

Sharkn4do "@Jawz: I wll avnge u!"

 

[SinisterGehe]

Who the hell reads their twitter on beaches? Don't you go there to swim, get a tan relax, forget the world. You can read twitter anywhere you want now days! I am sure someone will put up a 3/4G tower tall enough to cover most of outback also.
But twitter for pete sake...

 

[Aesir23]

Who the hell reads their twitter on beaches? Don't you go there to swim, get a tan relax, forget the world. You can read twitter anywhere you want now days! I am sure someone will put up a 3/4G tower tall enough to cover most of outback also.
But twitter for pete sake...

You'd be surprised. My sister doesn't peruse Twitter but I swear she'd have a panic attack if she was away from her phone for more than an hour outside of work.

OT: This is definitely interesting but, as others have said, I wouldn't be surprised if some ninny went to try to swim with one.

 

[Qage]

Forgive me if I sound a bit dense, but how exactly did they tag these sharks?

 

[Hero in a half shell]

However, shark researcher David Shiffman believes that Tweeting sharks are no substitute for proper shark safety.

I am now imagining sharks in high visibility jackets and hard hats reciting the green cross code whenever they travel across fishing vessel routes.

Gnarly.

 

[unstabLized]

I had the biggest "WAT" face imaginable when I read the title.. But I don't use twitter.. Oh god I'm doomed.