Chosen for a reason...what if all of US waking up finding each other on Twitter/social media and connecting, learning, sharing, etc. was a beta test for the rest of the world?
Sync- The last two days, Beta Test was in my head.
I was having the same thought... Beta test for the ones in the know, to measure and gage our responses and time it takes to be awake.
They could then slow or speedup the process to accommodate benchmarks.