There were a lot of questions after Hawaiians recently were alerted that a ballistic missile was incoming: How did such a message go out in the first place? And why did it take so long for authorities to correct?
On Monday, The Star-Advertiser reported that the error might have been corrected more quickly, except that Gov. Dave Ige had forgotten his Twitter password.
Gov. David Ige explains that part of the delay in notifying the public that the Jan. 13 missile alert was a false alarm was because he did not know his Twitter password. pic.twitter.com/S3tmoswOpZ
— SA Politics (@starpolitics) January 22, 2018
Who among us, though… https://t.co/4P69fLEp3N
— Gabrielle Levy ? (@gabbilevy) January 22, 2018
Why didn’t he just have it written on a Post-it and stuck to his monitor like they apparently do at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency?
Mm not good https://t.co/EPUSf3eVjN
— Calith (@PCalith) January 22, 2018
sometimes life comes at you fast https://t.co/Mj7Xme7VMm
— Steve Weitzman (@steveweitz) January 22, 2018
Seriously? https://t.co/EHsjyTcQkL
— Louis Jacobson (@loujacobson) January 22, 2018
Not ideal. https://t.co/3G9tzMnD33
— Kevin Dudley (@k_dudley) January 22, 2018
Umm… I would've come up with a better story on this one. https://t.co/tMwdCCvOHc
— Michael Gendron (@michaelgendron) January 22, 2018
How is this possibly real? My goodness. https://t.co/7LrvgdzW3d
— Scott Alonso (@ScottAlonso) January 22, 2018
Armageddon will come in the form of a password reset https://t.co/1rm9TF2iHu
— Gady Epstein (@gadyepstein) January 22, 2018
https://twitter.com/BobbyBigWheel/status/955577676328251397
And there we go. I need to move. https://t.co/tCEf6R70yF
— ａｍｙｂｕｒｖａｌｌ (@amyburvall) January 22, 2018
How do you forget "humuhumunukunukuapuaa"? https://t.co/1qTlxymX6i
— Graham Hall (@GrahamHall_) January 22, 2018
This stupid website will literally be the death of us all. https://t.co/05uWCBmsvz
— Hentai Kissinger (@Stormcrowtweet) January 22, 2018
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