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If the local authorities have an actual life-and-death emergency broadcast to make to the entire area they serve, I suspect they have a more effective means to
by cvoss 3y ago
If the local authorities have an actual life-and-death emergency broadcast to make to the entire area they serve, I suspect they have a more effective means to do this than Twitter. As a matter of public safety, they need to be able to inform everyone, whether they've subscribed or not, and in a way that does not require users to think to check for a notification, or even to have a special device (like a cellphone to receive push notifications). Those extra mechanisms are great and helpful, but they don't replace a true public emergency notification mechanism.
Where I live, the tornado siren, which is beyond extremely loud and mounted high up on a pole in the highest point in the neighborhood, can be used to broadcast PSAs. It screams "THIS IS ONLY A TEST" at noon on the first Wednesday of every month. And you hear it whether you want to or not.
- sofal 3y agoHow about: I'd like to know what's happening during an active shooter event at my son's school. Is there a loudspeaker for that? This actually happened to me, and guess where all of the official police updates were posted.
- richbell 3y ago> If the local authorities have an actual life-and-death emergency broadcast to make to the entire area they serve, I suspect they have a more effective means to do this than Twitter. Youre not wrong, but that doesn't mean they make effective use of them. During one of Canada's deadliest mass shootings, the police elected to only post information on Twitter. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/rcmp-twitter-alert-mass-shooting-portapique-nova-scotia-1.6477095 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/rcmp-twitter-aler...