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.
Number of tweets read have gone up to:
500 "new unverified"
1000 "unverified"
10000 "suckers"
Which doesn't sound like a big deal, but I don't think anyone knows what that actually means. On the surface it appears to include replies to your posts.
Carl T. Bergstrom
Ben de Bivort
Olav