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...affiliates received a truncated text message via “Message Me,” the University’s emergency notification system. Due to the character limit of the system, the message cut off the second sentence at “Police ask people to remain indoors and avoi??” and did not reach two percent of the system’s 14,000 subscribers...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer and Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: A Silent Aftermath | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...resulted from the difference in cell phone service providers among Message Me users, he added. But another bug affected those who did eventually find the texts on their phones. The second sentence of the messages were truncated to read “Police ask people to remain indoors and avoi??” cutting off the two final words, “the area.” The error resulted from the Message Me system’s inability to send texts longer than 160 characters, including the message heading, according to Galvin. University officials conducted a series...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Glitches Plague Text Alert System | 5/20/2009 | See Source »

...immediately following the incident, during which a variety of sources provided inconsistent or insufficient information. The first University emergency text message alert, sent to subscribers nearly an hour after the shooting, was cut off by word-capacity constraints, reading: “Police ask people to remain indoors and avoi??” Kirkland resident Gladisley Sanchez ’09 said she was unsure when she could leave her room. The text message, she said, was unclear and the first e-mailed communications from the university were “cryptic, vague and brief...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Criticize Late Response | 5/20/2009 | See Source »

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