People moan about Twitter being toxic etc, but it has become the best (only?) source for real-time news. You cannot get any quicker than learning information from people already on the ground and posting about what they are seeing.

Twitter knew what was happening before legacy media had even got out of bed.

if it goes down, we have lost an incredibly important source of news.

And all because of a giant manbaby throwing a tantrum

@Scientits Lots of journalists are joining mastodon, & BBC, CNN, Reuters being here will encourage a lot more. Telegram use huge in eastern Europe, but they know about mastodon too. It would be better if Musk had not caused mayhem, but he has. It looks like it has lost advertisers, has no income stream but huge debt. Now many critical operational staff have gone. I fear the worst.