What the recent nationwide blackout taught us about Pakistan's crisis communications. “Who is getting light?” This was the first post I read at 12:00 midnight PST on January 9, 2021 and within five minutes, by just looking at (without reading) the number of comments, I knew this was a major power breakdown. As a student of crisis communications, there onwards I started noting the different pieces of information doing rounds on social media. They included speculation by the mainstream media about the causes of the breakdown, from “sources” talking about terrorist attacks, including misleading images of posts dating from 2015 as well as an attack by the Indian Air Force, which came from the verified twitter account of a firebrand Pakistani activist. That was the ‘most authentic rumour’ of the night as Twitteritees tend to believe the tweets that come from a blue tick handle.