It’s been widely reported that the Vatican used SMS to notify journalists of the Pope’s death. But what about the rest of us? It’s just not that interesting that the Vatican sent a message out to the people they were going to tell anyway just a few minutes later.
The interesting thing would be if anyone could sign up to get the SMS. We have another opportunity for a white-smoked SMS– a place where people can sign up to be notified immediately when the puff of white smoke wafts.
All we need is someone to promise that they’ll staff the square, watching for the smoke puff, and hit their phone to trigger the Mass SMS (no pun intended) when the smoke rises.
Does anyone know if a news agency or any wildcat developer will make this?