"The ABC is shutting down almost all of its official accounts on #Twitter – now known as X under Elon Musk’s ownership – citing “toxic interactions”, cost and better interaction with ABC content on other social media platforms."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/09/abc-australia-leaves-twitter-x-elon-musk
They don't want to take a temporary hit to their audience numbers.
Will be interesting to see how many will follow.
former ABC managing director Mark Scott in 2010:
“Twitter reminds me of sitting in the newsroom, watching the feeds come in from the world’s great media organisations: Reuters, Dow Jones and Associated Press, the New York Times, The Guardian, AFP.”
If only they would join the fediverse.
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A lot changes in 13 years
someone else suggested writing to them via their contact form and asking them - using BBC as an example
Creating #mastodon accounts instead would have been nice.
@tchambers tbh this sounds bigger than it actually is:
"There will only be four remaining official accounts for Australia’s public broadcaster: @abcnews, @abcsport, @abcchinese and the master @abcaustralia account“
These will still operate on X.
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