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This actually pisses me off because for some reason governments, scientists, researchers, and developers all use twitter way too much and i often have check the
by user- 3y ago
This actually pisses me off because for some reason governments, scientists, researchers, and developers all use twitter way too much and i often have check their twitter for info that should be on their own site. Now I cant even do that ?
- Laaas 3y agoIt's temporary thankfully. > Temporary emergency measure. We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users! https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1674865731136020505 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1674865731136020505
- mcculley 3y agoWe have no reason to believe that it will be temporary. Musk using the phrase “data pillaged” for what users intended to publicly post shows us how he thinks of his walled garden.
- ecshafer 3y agoTwitter is the dumbest site on the internet, and for some reason it has been given an air of legitimacy by all of those groups. I don't get it.
- lunatuna 3y agoWhen working at a utility twitter was great for public announcements when there were major storm events or other things people wanted event driven information for. This was done with the understanding anyone with/without an account could see the information. If this change wasn't a mistake, it would invalidate using twitter for that. It is kinda too bad, but also oh well.
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- mvdtnz 3y agoGreat for whatever tiny proportion of your affected customers knew to look on Twitter.
- pessimizer 3y agoYou put it in the bill, on the website, in pamphlets, it's not rocket science. It's the kind of thing they announce on local news.
- ragnese 3y agoI've never had a Twitter account, but I vaguely remember way back when it came out, that people were able to get tweets as SMS messages (IIRC, smart phones were already popular, but maybe not 100% saturation like now, or maybe internet data was still spotty/expensive). That actually seems like a reasonable way to use it as a broadcasting channel. Too bad all of these social media sites are in a race to the bottom for most hostile user experience...
- Kye 3y agoTwitter was originally SMS-based. That's the origin of the 140 character limit. Smartphones as we know them came a couple of years later.
- JohnFen 3y agoI really hate it when government agencies or public utilities do this (or, worse, when they use Facebook), personally. Hopefully, this move by Twitter will finally put an end to it.
- allarm 3y agoProbably you should email them and explain the problem, for starters. That’s not going to help you with the old info, but it can help you and the others with the new one.