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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

• ianburrell 3y 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 3y 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.