Back in January, Twitchy noted that iPhone users were flooding Twitter with complaints and concerns about Amber Alerts:
iPhone users with the iOS 6 operating system received the message. Many Twitter users were awoken by the loud sound; a disturbing number of iPhone owners didn’t know what the nationwide warnings of abducted/missing children even were. Even more were unaware that their iPhones carried the alerts. For the ignorant: The messages are part of a new national cell phone emergency alert system “relying on Broadcast SMS to push notifications to smartphones for weather threats, Amber alerts and Presidential alerts. The system went live in New York City at the end of 2011, and should be live in most of the United States.”
Well, it happened again tonight.
RT if you just got that Amber alert. #WTF
— MSUpartystories (@MSUpartystories) March 31, 2013
just had an AMBER Alert sent to my phone… first time thats ever happened??… #DaFaq
— Courtney Bissonette (@Courtnelynn) March 31, 2013
They could of made the amber alert tone a little less scary! Sounded like hells gates waking me up ?
— Ashley (@AshleyWithey1) March 31, 2013
https://twitter.com/darlinia8/status/318244013671075840
https://twitter.com/Quinnzoeeeee/status/318238340300304385
https://twitter.com/SoySoCold/status/318243257979117568
The Amber Alert was scary alright — for the one-year-old child involved.
people shouldn't be joking around with this amber alert its not no joke that a 1 year old baby is missing and in danger #GrowUp
— Dayna (@DianaHuerta_) March 31, 2013
https://twitter.com/AliciaNRea/status/318225877517352960
AMBER ALERT: Police search for child taken from Flint gas station. http://t.co/biHUwDCjFl
— WXYZ Detroit (@wxyzdetroit) March 31, 2013
AMBER ALERT
Deonte Keyes Jr.Last seen in Flint, MI
Vehicle:
Chrysler Cirrus, Silver
License plate #CJN4569 pic.twitter.com/U6906yuotd— Brit ? (@xohhxohhbrit) March 31, 2013
The good news: The alert was canceled in the wee hours of the morning Easter Sunday after the toddler was found:
https://twitter.com/bradykaitlin98/status/318237135360622592
https://twitter.com/DRau09/status/318242898602774529
Thanks for your concern. Shaking our heads.
https://twitter.com/miniaturemarie/status/318244699448160257
I thought I was the only one who got that emergency text from Amber Alert tonight. It scared the shit outta me!
— |FINESSE KING| (@MannyyFreshh_) March 31, 2013
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