Viral Virus
Posted: February 9th, 2009 | Author: Matthew | Filed under: Uncategorized | 2 Comments »So I’m on a business trip in Nashville busy working, networking, etc…
About 1:51pm I get a text message from a friend who happens to be a Tulsa Police office (Trusted Source) with info about an Amber Alert. Text had details including a local Tulsa park and had a license plate number. I quickly forwarded the text, posted a tweet, and shot out a bunch of emails before going back to work…
My tweet got RT’ed probably 100 times even someone in NYC actually retweeted it.
Few minutes later I start getting texts and tweets from people in the media asking where the heck I’m getting this info… So then I start digging… My cop friend heard it from another cop, who heard it from another cop… etc..
I checked with some media sources I have here in Tulsa and its totally false. At this point no one knows where it all actually started, though the same thing happened up in Utah the other day.
I’ll update later when I get back to the hotel…
Update Check out this Twitter feed for updated Amber Alerts.
Hey, I got the text too and I’m in Az it’s total bull ya know? I honestly do see this as a good thing, my hope in a caring selfless society is beginning to be restored. But yea just keep passing it on over there that it’s fake and I’ll do my best here to spread the word. Peace.
That’s just wrong, to make up something like that. Amber Alert is supposed to have a big impact when it goes out and people making hoax like that… then it’ll be like the kid who cried wolf. But you did the right thing for sure.
RaisingLuna