Well, for god’s sake, don’t “reply all…”
No, do reply all. We can do our own experiment. Just reply “Hello world” and everyone who gets it can post. Yay! This sounds like fun.
Posting this in case anyone else has this issue:
Mine came through as a text message, along with the obnoxious noise. When I pressed the menu button to delete it, there was no option to do so, like there normally is. I was starting to get pissed, when I tried long-pressing the body of the message itself. Then an option came up to delete it.
I had my phone off because I was in Lincoln Center at the My Fair Lady revival at 2:18. They asked everyone to be careful to turn off phones because of this. No one’s phone beeped during the Convent Garden scene, so people must have been good.
I got no texts when I turned mine back on.
I had my phone on vibrate and was napping. Just a coincidence. I’d forgotten all about it. It didn’t wake me up. When I did get up, there was a text message, but I deleted it without reading. My tax-payer dollars at work!
You know, if this had been called a “Nationwide Alert” and nothing else about it was different, y’all probably wouldn’t be acting like a test of the Emergency Broadcast System was some sort of terrible affront to democracy.
Just saying.
They could have called it that. But they chose to link it to the president’s position and office. That reeks of ego and at the very least, makes fair game.
Mine came through and I deleted it. Something about order sixty-six. I don’t remember much from this afternoon.
I received nothing on my Verizon phone… however, it came through on my wife’s Sprint phone and wouldn’t go away. It finally disappeared a couple hours later.
I got the message but not the tone, unless it was at exactly the same time as happened on the tv, which I doubt. The tone there was the same as the one they use for the Emergency Alert Broadcast System, which I thought was odd. I thought it would be really obnoxious like the Amber Alerts.
The Big Crow didn’t get the message or the tone on his phone.
I had some fun yesterday embedding the txt alert with humorous cartoons of Trump and Pence as Beavis and Butthead, then texting the combined image to friends as a Presidential re-alert. 
The funniest thing was the New Yorker cartoon that came out the next day. A guy holding his phone. On it:
PRESIDENTIAL ALERT!
Donald Trump is still president
This is not a test
Action Required!
I got the alert on my tablet which is LTE capable but not in service with any phone number. I thought that was odd. /shrug