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Hawaii governor didn’t correct false missile alert sooner because he didn’t know...
Hawaii governor didn’t correct false missile alert sooner because he didn’t know his Twitter password!
Quote: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 (D-Hawaii), 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.
The state itself did not issue an official correction until 38 minutes after the errant warning went out.
Ige said he has taken steps to ensure it won’t happen again. Namely, he saved his Twitter information on his cellphone.
“I’ve been putting that on my phone so that we can access the social media directly,” Ige said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morn...6c64c753e1
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01-25-2018 06:18 PM |
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