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> which in some regions contained a link to Twitter. At that time, Twitter had restricted access for people who weren't signed in, which highlighted the problem
by akira2501 3y ago
> which in some regions contained a link to Twitter. At that time, Twitter had restricted access for people who weren't signed in, which highlighted the problems of governments relying on the whims of tech players in getting these messages out.
The government doesn't have a website where it can host a page and create a link? That's just lazy.
- nerdbert 3y agoOf course they do. But people are not trained to bookmark a slew of government pages and then figure out the right one to go to in various situations. They are, however, trained to go to Twitter and see urgent alerts collated neatly in one place.
- akira2501 3y agoThe government sent out a message with an embedded link to Twitter. It sounds to me like the government can choose whatever link it likes and that in this case they unaccountably chose twitter. I doubt the assertion that even a simple majority of people are "trained to go to Twitter" for urgent alerts, or that even if true, this would justify the government using them as the default platform to link to in their own government created alert messages.