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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.com

On Reddit, Orange County residents are very justifiably angry that local authorities are posting vital evacuation information on X and Instagram…which both require accounts if you want to be able to view videos easily and completely. How many people use neither? This has got to stop.

Faine Greenwood
@faineg.com

I wrote about why governments must stop relying upon Facebook and X/Twitter to communicate vital disaster information to the public a while back - unfortunately, this issue is only getting worse. You can do something about it: write to your local authorities and demand they change their approach.

little-flying-robots.ghost.ioWe Have to Stop Using Facebook and X to Warn People About DisastersIn the early morning hours of July 4th, as the Guadalupe River reached catastrophic heights, city officials in Kerr County, Texas turned to an all-too familiar mechanism for getting the word out to ar...
citizenjs1.bsky.social
@citizenjs1.bsky.social

Reading the article prompted this thought: both FB and twitter are declining and fighting for relevance. Wouldn't it make *a little* sense for one of them to do the work to become the must-have, go-to app for emergency comms? Be valuable for this function, and drive more users to your site?

SallyRCbra
@srpassesiton.bsky.social

Twitter was fantastic for Christchurch #eqnz . If it happened now I wouldn’t know where to go. BlueSky has an eqnz feed but it’s low activity. Some weather events are covered well-ish here. Does anyone know if Threads does disasters? I wish we had a reliable place.

citizenjs1.bsky.social
@citizenjs1.bsky.social

Yes, that seems pretty clear, but I guess it doesn't have to make sense. FB would be a lot more useful to me if it would show me the local govt accounts I follow promptly instead of a week later. I would go to FB more often.