Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Ohio Might Annouce Executions Have Been Completed VIA Twitter

Hmmmm See Ohio Considering Using Twitter to Announce Executions? WTF! Epic Fail!

2 comments:

Pro Ecclesia said...

I wonder if the guy to whom you linked can actually read and comprehend what he's reading. I don't get the "Epic fail" part. What's an "epic fail"? Here's what the story says:

A spokeswoman says Ohio’s prison system has contemplated using Twitter to announce when an execution has been completed.

However, Communications Director Julie Walburn at the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction says she’s concerned that tweeting about an inmate’s time of death may be considered in poor taste.

She says the department still hasn’t decided how to use Twitter and other social media to disseminate news.


So, Ohio considered using Twitter to make announcements regarding executions, but has not done so at this point over concerns that it might be unseemly. What's the problem? Where's the "epic fail"?

So, the long and the short of it is that the state of Ohio is struggling with how to disseminate information quickly in an age where more and more people are demanding information sooner, but has concerns about whether the up-and-coming means of sharing information quickly is a tasteful way of communicating about executions?

Again, I'm somehow missing the "epic fail" part of the equation.

James H said...

I think it was a tad of a overreaction