Looking back
Last Thursday, with millennials convulsed by the unprecedented crash of Facebook and Instagram, New Zealand’s Canterbury Police tweeted a tongue-in-cheek request that made Odd Spot columns of newspapers around the world:
Just one day later, Canterbury Police posted its very next tweet:
The agony of Christchurch and New Zealand’s loss of innocence is summed up by those two successive Canterbury Police tweets: Thursday’s Kiwi humour followed by the first confirmation of Friday’s carnage.
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