Something I keep thinking about:
The excessive heat warnings across the country today, and the people relying on Twitter to get information cooling centers, free water, etc.
If you run a social media account for an elected/agency, please bring up to your bosses that now is the time to start building up your platforms outside of Twitter too.
@Celeste_pewter I found safety during a severe weather event (2013/14 polar vortex ice storm) in large part via Twitter; this hits hard. And in fact, the reason I needed to use Twitter is because the state website mistakenly omitted the info for the emergency warning shelter for the town I was stranded in. I also managed to get in touch with the state agency and get their website updated by contacting them…through Twitter.
Fuck.
Twitter had become infrastructure many relied on. Time to push state agencies into the #fediverse and make the latter realise its potential as distributed, resilient infrastructure.
Celeste Pewter
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