Casey NewtonThere are so many ways to break a website and by the time he is done Elon will have personally overseen all of them
BTW this is why it was stupid for all those government / emergency services accounts to resume posting on Twitter. Absolutely unreliable in critical situations
Ian Servin@caseynewton I dunno if that's fair. As an emergency services person, it's not like we have much of a choice. Changing how we do public alerting and messaging is not something we can do overnight, and for good reason.
My grad school capstone was on social media use in the emerg mgmt world and unsurprisingly agencies are extremely under-resourced when it comes to social media comms. Relying on them to lead vs follow best practices and trends is unrealistic imho.
@airplaneian I hear you but you're giving your community a false sense of security by suggesting that they can rely on Twitter to find out about emergencies. The downside risk of that is enormous imo
Jalmari Lähevirta@caseynewton @airplaneian Anything that's being locked behind a login is not a reliable way for any officials to inform people.
It's like putting the emergency number behind some kind of wall to use.
It's like putting the emergency number behind some kind of wall to use.