Twitter As An Emergency Broadcast System? Doesn't It Have To Work Regularly First?
from the just-saying... dept
While we definitely found the story of a student in Egypt using Twitter to alert people that he had been arrested interesting, it does seem like a bit of a stretch to then say that it makes sense to create an emergency alert system via Twitter. Though it has some potential to be powerful, an emergency alert system needs to be reliable -- and Twitter is rather infamous for its pretty regular downtime.Filed Under: communications, emergencies, infrastructure, messaging, stability
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