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Hawaii Governor Didn't Correct False Missile Alert Sooner Because He Didn't Know His Twitter Password (washingtonpost.com)
An anonymous reader shares a WashingtonPost report: Minutes after the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency mistakenly sent a missile alert at 8:07 a.m. on Jan. 13 -- terrifying residents and visitors across the state -- some officials, such as Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, rushed to Twitter to reassure everyone it was a mistake. But one Twitter account was deafeningly silent for 17 minutes: that of Hawaii Gov. David Ige. Though Ige was informed by the state's adjutant general that the alert was false two minutes after it was sent, he waited until 8:24 a.m. to tweet, "There is NO missile threat." On Monday, after he gave the State of the State address in which he avoided the subject of the missile alert fiasco, reporters demanded an explanation for that long silence. Ige's answer: He couldn't log in to Twitter. "I have to confess that I don't know my Twitter account log-ons and the passwords, so certainly that's one of the changes that I've made," Ige said.
I wouldn't call Twitter a partisan website, But it isn't a good tool for emergency information.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Twitter is absolutely partisan. It's far left and has no problem with banning conservatives. They were even exposed as attacking them with AI algorithms to shadowban. Twitter is a total shitshow.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
In Twitter's defense, it's getting terribly hard to tell you guys apart from the Russian TrollBots