X Kicked Off 2024 by Screwing Up During Japan's Earthquake Emergency
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The idea that centralized social media should serve as an emergency broadcasting system is....a bad one. It's only guarantee is that ads are to be served alongside propaganda.
People are too stupid. Think of how we don't teach dolphins tricks, just harness the ones they already know. Can't convince people to download a "save your life" app. Have to just take advantage of what they're willing
mass sms to everyone work, and there's even a whole "emergency alert" system built into both Android and ios. it's used all the time in America for things like missing children.
You can turn off emergency alerts though. And you can't get them back after they've been dismissed from your phone.
Android retains emergency alerts for the lifetime of the phone, even after they've been viewed/dismissed. They can be seen in the settings app under emergency alert history.
Well I would like a federal app that had Federal, state, and city only feeds. But that would cost money and people hate taxes. Don't need your real name, read only and can get push notifications and see what is going on in the state, city.