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>for people who don't use it that's their problem You're evacuating, driving along a highway, and during the course of your trip the available evacuation route
by ineedasername 3y ago
>for people who don't use it that's their problem
You're evacuating, driving along a highway, and during the course of your trip the available evacuation routes change. A website is useless here.
The context of the conversation is emergency situations, that has to be taken into account when thinking about the required public notification infrastructure.
- ghaff 3y agoBut what is reliably useful at that point? Radio maybe? I'm not sure how Twitter or a Twitter clone is any more useful than a website. Phone alerts are probably the best choice at that point assuming you don't have them turned off.
- bombcar 3y agoTwitter can’t be better than a website because Twitter IS a website! What Twitter was is better than Facebook, the main other governmental alert platform.
- amrocha 3y agoHow is it useless? You're in traffic, you check Twitter on your phone, you change your plans. I can't subscribe to an RSS feed on a phone by default
- ineedasername 3y agoIf you get a chance. You're not necessarily going to be in traffic so slow that you can safely do that. Maybe you will, maybe not. Getting an alert means you don't have to guess & keep checking. If there's an additional alert you get it and only then have figure out how to safely check it.
- slavik81 3y ago> You're in traffic, you check Twitter on your phone That is illegal in B.C.