It's a good idea but I see a couple of drawbacks: - if you use a standard website you get limited feedback. Politicians love twitter and FB because they basica

It's a good idea but I see a couple of drawbacks: - if you use a standard website you get limited feedback. Politicians love twitter and FB because they basically have unlimited retweet/reposts and feedback from their supporters. So using their own system, they would lose that. - A stand-alone governmental system that allows interaction would need people to register specifically to that system. Beyond becoming a massive potential for data collection (potentially in the same vein apps for political parties are doing it) there is no way it could reach a significant portion of the population (beyond its own supporters maybe). - The use of private companies blurs the line between official commentary and a personal one. That's probably also a reason why these people would not want a dedicated governmental infrastructure, it may rob them of this ambivalence. So, the government should have its own system and any public official should only be allowed to interact through that system and not use any other social media platform other than for sharing recipes and pictures of their dogs. Maybe they would then think a bit more before retweeting nonsense and hate[1] and they could be made slightly more accountable. [1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53212685 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53212685