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For most of Twitter's existence, it was a fantastic source of real-time information about rapidly-changing events. Many organizations used it to distribute urge

For most of Twitter's existence, it was a fantastic source of real-time information about rapidly-changing events. Many organizations used it to distribute urgent information, and it was totally reasonable for users to rely on that.

nradov 3y ago
I can't imagine the level of leadership incompetence in any organization that would rely on Twitter to distribute urgent information. Seriously wtf?
- happytoexplain 3y ago
  "Rely" implies they don't use multiple vectors. Regardless, Twitter was historically reliable for the purpose of being one vector - a particularly functional one, in fact. You're making exaggerated attacks.
- delecti 3y ago
  In your eagerness to hate on everything Twitter ever was, and not just what it has become, you are ignoring that Twitter was a fantastic resource for that kind of thing for over a decade. It's not incompetence to use a free tool that is so well suited for the job. And as the other reply mentioned, this wasn't the only way they were distributing information. In the tweet where the NERV announced they were being rate limited, they also linked to their dedicated app.
  - nradov 3y ago
    You misunderstand. I don't hate Twitter/X. I've used it since near the beginning and continue to use it today. It's a useful tool for some purposes. But it was never a reliable channel for distributing urgent information. It has always been highly unreliable for a wide range of reasons.
    - orwin 3y ago
      It was used as that though, I was in Paris during both Charlie Hebdo (close to one of a student i worked with lived) and during the Bataclan (family member was working at the football game where the secondary attack attempt took place). SMS and calls were overloaded, i didn't have any social media account, so Facebook was out for me, twitter was the only place i got news. Now, i don't think i would even consider using it though. Mainly because you have to create an account, but also i think the quality degraded since Covid and i can't check if its becomming better (nitter tells me it isn't though).
- rsynnott 3y ago
  Eh, back when Twitter actually worked properly (essentially from the end of the failwhale era to the ascension of Carface) it was… kind of fine for that purpose? Became particularly popular for it in Japan.

nradov 3y ago

I can't imagine the level of leadership incompetence in any organization that would rely on Twitter to distribute urgent information. Seriously wtf?

happytoexplain 3y ago
"Rely" implies they don't use multiple vectors. Regardless, Twitter was historically reliable for the purpose of being one vector - a particularly functional one, in fact. You're making exaggerated attacks.
delecti 3y ago
In your eagerness to hate on everything Twitter ever was, and not just what it has become, you are ignoring that Twitter was a fantastic resource for that kind of thing for over a decade. It's not incompetence to use a free tool that is so well suited for the job. And as the other reply mentioned, this wasn't the only way they were distributing information. In the tweet where the NERV announced they were being rate limited, they also linked to their dedicated app.
- nradov 3y ago
  You misunderstand. I don't hate Twitter/X. I've used it since near the beginning and continue to use it today. It's a useful tool for some purposes. But it was never a reliable channel for distributing urgent information. It has always been highly unreliable for a wide range of reasons.
  - orwin 3y ago
    It was used as that though, I was in Paris during both Charlie Hebdo (close to one of a student i worked with lived) and during the Bataclan (family member was working at the football game where the secondary attack attempt took place). SMS and calls were overloaded, i didn't have any social media account, so Facebook was out for me, twitter was the only place i got news. Now, i don't think i would even consider using it though. Mainly because you have to create an account, but also i think the quality degraded since Covid and i can't check if its becomming better (nitter tells me it isn't though).
rsynnott 3y ago
Eh, back when Twitter actually worked properly (essentially from the end of the failwhale era to the ascension of Carface) it was… kind of fine for that purpose? Became particularly popular for it in Japan.