Steven T. DennisTwitter is now broken for real right now. Feeds and search not working. #TwitterDown.
Sustained outages would be the kind of thing that risks brings Twitter in a major way. Or an alternative that achieves similar scale and better functionality (which does not yet exist - Mastodon has much smaller scale and much worse functionality for news especially. It can be better for civilized conversations and niches).
Shawn Smith Peirce@steventdennis And as Juliette Kayyem wrote this week, these kinds of errors make Twitter non-functional as a tool for disaster relief.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/elon-musk-twitter-blue-natural-disaster-crisis-emergency-response/673209/
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/elon-musk-twitter-blue-natural-disaster-crisis-emergency-response/673209/
spherulitic@steventdennis I hope that Mastodon recreates the news functionality of Twitter eventually. It’s a collective action problem, and Twitter had years after it started to become that incredible information sharing tool.
That said, I appreciate your presence here, thank you!
Mike Fraser@steventdennis Mastodon from a user perspective is better for news as I can filter and moderate my news sources better. It has however not achieved a critical mass yet with journalists due to some short sightedness when it comes to perceived reach. See my value proposition to journalists here: https://thecanadian.online/?p=167
Journalists, You’re Walking Away From A Gold Mine - The Canadian Online
UPDATED FEB 9, 2023: Added some great corroborating numbers from Martin Holland @[email protected] Let's time travel back to December, a time when Elon decided he didn't care for journalists anymore and laid down the ban hammer on a wide swath of the press corp. There were headlines (ironically) about the death of free speech on
@steventdennis Mastodon is also a more resistant to outages due to it's decentralized design. You will never see all of the fediverse go out all at once.
Sheldon@steventdennis it seems to be intermittent and it's probably regional. Still, it's another plot point in a trend line that points to the chickens are starting to come home to roost. #TwitterDown
Mark Blacknell
dumbfinder@steventdennis it’s a feature!