Topic: US to use Facebook, Twitter to issue terror alerts

[sam]

Terror alerts from the government will soon have just two levels of warnings — elevated and imminent — and those will be relayed to the public only under certain circumstances. Color codes are out; Facebook and Twitter will sometimes be in, according to a Homeland Security draft obtained by The Associated Press

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-04-facebook-twitter-issue-terror.html

YAY to scaring everyone all the time. Chances of dying in a terrorist attack << getting run over.

[Clive]

That is very scary!  But if they use Twitter to get the message across then I will never know about it. 

[sam]

fail.

[Simon]

Me neither.  Can we get them to join here, so we can be warned?   

[sam]

ill feed you the twitter feed.

[Simon]

Thanks! 

[sam]

f***ING RUN NOW!!!

[Simon]

Oh, can't it wait till the morning?

[sam]

yeah. guess so. then run faster.