It was used as that though, I was in Paris during both Charlie Hebdo (close to one of a student i worked with lived) and during the Bataclan (family member was

It was used as that though, I was in Paris during both Charlie Hebdo (close to one of a student i worked with lived) and during the Bataclan (family member was working at the football game where the secondary attack attempt took place). SMS and calls were overloaded, i didn't have any social media account, so Facebook was out for me, twitter was the only place i got news. Now, i don't think i would even consider using it though. Mainly because you have to create an account, but also i think the quality degraded since Covid and i can't check if its becomming better (nitter tells me it isn't though).