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Elon Musk Has Broken Disaster-Response Twitter

15 points by amrrs 4y ago

smoldesu 4y ago
This feels more like an indictment of our terrible emergency services infrastructure. When lives are on the line, there ought to be a reliable, non-privatized communication platform that puts the protocol before NFT profile pictures or paranoid bot crusades.
- augment002 4y ago
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- quantified 4y ago
  There's always Facebook.
- version_five 4y ago
  Not that I'm a fan, but don't most places have cell phone emergency alerts. This seems to fit the bill and is in every way better than wasting time with Twitter, no matter who runs it.
  - ianburrell 4y ago
    There is disaster communication below emergency alerts. The article gave example of Turkey earthquake where people were coordinating supplies on Twitter. Or weather alerts that aren’t emergencies but people want to follow. Mastodon would work for those. But the users are still on Twitter so it is important to reach them.
    - smoldesu 4y ago
      All the more reason Twitter should support open protocols! They might have a hard time competing if they work against the industry rather than with it. Especially if Elon is dumb enough to keep sticking his nose in politics. > But the users are still on Twitter so it is important to reach them. Let's not be naive. Some people are on Twitter, but other people only have a flip phone or laptop, or nothing at all. There are better ways to prevent people from falling through the cracks then telling them to just align with the most popular platform. Especially since the keys to the kingdom just got ritually passed-down from Dumb to Dumber. Twitter will keep it's bots and probably it's influencers too, but this level of unreliability is just a collision course with obsolescence. Governments, public orgs and nonprofits will all think twice before setting up a Twitter now.
barathr 4y ago
Ben @AI6YR who is a legend in the disaster response space has been doing amazing work on his own Mastodon server, creating tons of bots and feeds many of which are independent of Twitter sources (and when a Twitter source dies, he finds a replacement often from the raw underlying source): https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr
sandspar 4y ago
Let's all put our heads together and dredge up more obscure Twitter communities to malign Musk.

15 points by amrrs 4y ago

This feels more like an indictment of our terrible emergency services infrastructure. When lives are on the line, there ought to be a reliable, non-privatized communication platform that puts the protocol before NFT profile pictures or paranoid bot crusades.

augment002 4y ago
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quantified 4y ago
There's always Facebook.
version_five 4y ago
Not that I'm a fan, but don't most places have cell phone emergency alerts. This seems to fit the bill and is in every way better than wasting time with Twitter, no matter who runs it.
- ianburrell 4y ago
  There is disaster communication below emergency alerts. The article gave example of Turkey earthquake where people were coordinating supplies on Twitter. Or weather alerts that aren’t emergencies but people want to follow. Mastodon would work for those. But the users are still on Twitter so it is important to reach them.
  - smoldesu 4y ago
    All the more reason Twitter should support open protocols! They might have a hard time competing if they work against the industry rather than with it. Especially if Elon is dumb enough to keep sticking his nose in politics. > But the users are still on Twitter so it is important to reach them. Let's not be naive. Some people are on Twitter, but other people only have a flip phone or laptop, or nothing at all. There are better ways to prevent people from falling through the cracks then telling them to just align with the most popular platform. Especially since the keys to the kingdom just got ritually passed-down from Dumb to Dumber. Twitter will keep it's bots and probably it's influencers too, but this level of unreliability is just a collision course with obsolescence. Governments, public orgs and nonprofits will all think twice before setting up a Twitter now.

barathr 4y ago

Ben @AI6YR who is a legend in the disaster response space has been doing amazing work on his own Mastodon server, creating tons of bots and feeds many of which are independent of Twitter sources (and when a Twitter source dies, he finds a replacement often from the raw underlying source): https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr

sandspar 4y ago

Let's all put our heads together and dredge up more obscure Twitter communities to malign Musk.