It is now painfully clear that no local government, state or federal agency, or other civic institution should be using Twitter for any purpose other than directing people to alternative platforms.
Using the platform for anything other than a last ditch backup for any kind of emergency communication is clearly a disaster waiting to happen.
Non-users can no longer see Twitter posts, and entities like NWS and USGS are rate-limited so they cannot read or respond to all the damage and other reports if a tornado/earthquake/etc happens.
@olavf @debivort @ct_bergstrom Like the Death Star, these services had plenty of time to diversify/move to another stable place, like Mastodon, when the chaos storm hit.
@NSFVoyager2 did after I poked it past November. It's about 8 months later so I think NWS and USGS no longer have an excuse not to have some social media "redundancy".
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70m+ active viewers in the US (350m+ worldwide) vs 1.3m active viewers worldwide.
I think gov't agencies should move here for a host of reasons other than reach, but the investment is a hard sell
@ShrikeTron an old line:
"Getting Things Done Around Here Is Like Mating Elephants
1. It’s Done At A High Level.
2. It’s Accomplished With A Great Deal Of Roaring And Screaming.
3. It Takes Two Years To Produce Results."
The government moves like molasses, and besides there's plenty of US twits. And there's FB.
And someone has to stick their neck out. If the EU actually adopts, there's an argument. If PBS and corps embrace ActivityPub there's another argument. And the risk of being wrong.
Carl T. Bergstrom
Ben de Bivort
Olav
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