Keep in mind that the delivery of something of this scale almost certainly cannot be entirely simultaneous. Pushing hundreds of millions of messages, through various channels, to hundreds of millions of devices will absolutely take time. At least a few minutes.
Twitter has entire server racks dedicated to individual accounts, just to handle the fan-out.
I was in a store. A worker's phone EAS went off. About 2 minutes later my phone went off but in Spanish. I never got the first one in English. Definitely not simultaneous or reliable.
Same here. I didn't get the first wave but my coworkers did, and then a couple minutes I got 3 alert messages along with the tone.
The first was English the second Spanish and the third English, all three said the same thing (I know Spanish), but only the Spanish audio played
Keep in mind that the delivery of something of this scale almost certainly cannot be entirely simultaneous. Pushing hundreds of millions of messages, through various channels, to hundreds of millions of devices will absolutely take time. At least a few minutes.
Twitter has entire server racks dedicated to individual accounts, just to handle the fan-out.
I was in a store. A worker's phone EAS went off. About 2 minutes later my phone went off but in Spanish. I never got the first one in English. Definitely not simultaneous or reliable.
Same here. I didn't get the first wave but my coworkers did, and then a couple minutes I got 3 alert messages along with the tone. The first was English the second Spanish and the third English, all three said the same thing (I know Spanish), but only the Spanish audio played