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".
@ShrikeTron @debivort @ct_bergstrom
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.
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.
@DarleneCypser @debivort @ct_bergstrom
Rate limits have been all over the news since Saturday. Account-wall is also very real, but I doubt it affects many journalists
"The National Weather Service said it may be unable to see tweeted reports of severe weather and associated damage, and asked subscribers to use its office telephone numbers instead."
https://www.reuters.com/technology/what-does-twitter-rate-limit-exceeded-mean-users-2023-07-03/
Elon Musk's Twitter has put a temporary limit on the number of tweets that users can see each day, a move that has sparked some backlash and could undermine the social network's <a href="/business/media-telecom/musks-twitter-rate-limits-could-undermine-new-ceo-ad-experts-say-2023-07-03/">efforts to attract advertisers</a>.
@olavf @debivort @ct_bergstrom
Should never trust a service run by a crazy billionaire for anything remotely essential
@ct_bergstrom As with the Erdogan coup, I was breathlessly following the mutiny live, both at Rostov, and up the M4. I even was pretty sure where Prigozhin’s forces were to meet the Spetsnaz. Good luck doing that henceforward.
I always did figure that his ‘secret plan’ was to make the ‘use it free’ side unbearable.
or set up their own thing and join us here though I do worry about the propagation speed across the federationThanks, that's an important pov.
F.e.: "Venues and social media
On April 2, 2013, the Securities and Exchange Commission said companies can use social media to disseminate information if certain requirements are met. As with company websites, investors’ access to the chosen social media platform must not be restricted and investors must be notified about which social media will be used to disseminate information."
@trobador only if they self-host these instances, though. IMHO.
Because even with Musk as boss, Twitter is in essence more durable, and reliable, than a server run by an overworked, volunteer enthusiast.
@dpw @ct_bergstrom I love libraries and think they should go hand and hand with open source and computer education.
I mean free distribution of public knowledge anyone?
Being able to understand the tools used to distribute said information?
The people that learned being able to show appreciation by improving said tools?
State funded commissions on improving critical software infrastructure?
But we live in a world where people want to replace libraries with Starbucks un-ironically,
And government bodies use windows.
I’ve been having similar thoughts. How can anyone use #Twitter for anything serious at this late date? Mismanaged and unreliable. 😕
Hurricane center bot is here for those who need a heads-up. But you're right, when Sandy took my town out, it was social media that people used for getting rescued & later getting housed & fed. We had a wildfire 2 miles away again this summer. People coordinate horsetrailers online to get animals out if need be.
Real-time emergency communication shouldn't only work for the benefit of the fucking Nazis but that's where we're heading
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