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When working at a utility twitter was great for public announcements when there were major storm events or other things people wanted event driven information f
by lunatuna 3y ago
When 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.