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January 23, 2018 04:44 pm GMT
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Hawaii's governor couldn't tweet about missile false alarm because he forgot his Twitter password
During that brief, scary time a few weeks back when Hawaii thought it was under attack, Gov. David Ige was conspicuously absent from Twitter, where other officials tried to spread word that the alert was just a false alarm, and now we know why: He forgot his Twitter password.
It wasn't until about 17 minutes after the initial alert that Ige got this tweet out to his admittedly meager 7,700 followers.
There is NO missile threathttps://t.co/qR2MlYAYxL
— Governor David Ige (@GovHawaii) January 13, 2018
The new tidbit came to light as Ige was pressed by reporters after not addressing the incident in his annual State of the State speech on Monday. Read more...
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