> Sure, but what are the majority of their customers going to do? Providing a status monitor/canary page does not force anyone to register an account or subscr

> Sure, but what are the majority of their customers going to do? Providing a status monitor/canary page does not force anyone to register an account or subscribe to a service. They can provide all sorts of push/pull notification options they can conceive. Once Elon Musk's Twitter restricted access to their API I'm afraid Twitter lost any relevance for this type of use case.