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The article leads off with "Experts say it spells the end of social media as a reliable platform during an emergency." But later down the article admits: > Tw
by shkkmo 3y ago
The article leads off with "Experts say it spells the end of social media as a reliable platform during an emergency."
But later down the article admits:
> Twitter has put new rules in place that limit the number of automated tweets an account can send without paying
So if the B.C. government had bothered paying for the service rather than relying on a free account to disemminate mission critical info, there would have been no issue.
So this is really just yet another biased Twitter hit piece rather than actual journalism.
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoWhat crap: Musk also prevented people from viewing tweets during the same period. Couldn't see Tweets if you didn't have an account (you still can't browse, only see a specific linked tweet), and even if you did you were limited to 600 a day. It's not a public service. It should never have been used that way. People need to stop posting twitter feeds as generally accessible things, and treat Twitter like a private site that it is. Anyways, thank you Musk for teaching the public that they were using it wrong. Now they can demand their governments actually create proper services for the public instead of relying on his stuff. Now if kids schools etc could stop using Facebook groups too? Wouldn't that be nice?