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Is that true in the EU? In the US, there are certainly agencies and local governments who primarily or only communicate real time news through Twitter. Even oth

Is that true in the EU? In the US, there are certainly agencies and local governments who primarily or only communicate real time news through Twitter. Even other tech companies do this instead of posting on their own blogs or forums. It's annoying as heck, especially since Musk made it so that you can't see the latest posts without an account.

withinboredom 2y ago
Kinda hard to do since Twitter doesn't exist any more. There's a thing called X that is basically the same thing though. /s
- timeon 2y ago
  Many are now using Wayland instead of X. But https://twitter.com/ https://twitter.com/ still returns 200.
  - diggan 2y ago
    `curl -v https://twitter.com https://twitter.com` returns HTTP 302 for me, which is kind of funny. If the redirect was permanent, they'd use HTTP 301 (Moved Permanently) but instead they use HTTP 302 is amounts to "Moved Temporarily". I wonder if there is still a chance it'll move back to Twitter so people can start to recognize it again.
    - withinboredom 2y ago
      I also wonder if this was an engineering troll.
    - solardev 2y ago
      Who knows, Elon might decide X is too long tomorrow and rename it to / Eventually it's just going to become some invisible unicode char. Fits the "space" theme better.
- solardev 2y ago
  They renamed Twitter? Why would they do that? Sounds like the kind of thing that a bored and stoned billionaire would do for the lulz
a2128 2y ago
In my experience, the local governments here most often use Facebook, not Twitter
diggan 2y ago
> Is that true in the EU? In the US, there are certainly agencies and local governments who primarily or only communicate real time news through Twitter. Hard to say how it works across the EU, but in Spain, there was a point where many of the various local arms of government did use Twitter as the primary tool to reach people, at least here in Barcelona/Catalunya. Not all agencies, and never as the only communication tool, but things often appeared there first. At one point, Telegram was added to the mix, and seems it's usage is kind of spread now, but again, never the only communication path, just another channel. Twitter usage fell at some point too. All the important information still goes out via proper websites. That a government agency would use a for-profit platform for its primary and only way of communicating with the citizens sounds absolutely bananas to me, but I guess it makes sense for a country centered around for-profit enterprises.
- solardev 2y ago
  Yeah, and in the US, governments are typically pretty poorly resourced and IT starved. The average local gov can barely use MS Office, much less manage a proper blog site. The federal / state / local divide makes it more complicated too. We don't have one government but several, usually at least four (fed, state, county, city), not even counting the agencies that actually do things. They all end up reinventing the wheel in some shitty way or else just using some staffer's Twitter or Facebook account.
  - diggan 2y ago
    > The federal / state / local divide makes it more complicated too. We don't have one government but several, usually at least four (fed, state, county, city), It's exactly the same here (except besides those, we also have the various EU entities "above", so I guess more complicated actually?), my Spanish and Catalan compatriots seem to handle that just fine.
    - solardev 2y ago
      I'm jealous! The EU in general seems much more livable, at least the parts I've visited. The US is a pretty gilded but otherwise relatively dysfunctional society.

withinboredom 2y ago

Kinda hard to do since Twitter doesn't exist any more. There's a thing called X that is basically the same thing though. /s

timeon 2y ago
Many are now using Wayland instead of X. But https://twitter.com/ https://twitter.com/ still returns 200.
- diggan 2y ago
  `curl -v https://twitter.com https://twitter.com` returns HTTP 302 for me, which is kind of funny. If the redirect was permanent, they'd use HTTP 301 (Moved Permanently) but instead they use HTTP 302 is amounts to "Moved Temporarily". I wonder if there is still a chance it'll move back to Twitter so people can start to recognize it again.
  - withinboredom 2y ago
    I also wonder if this was an engineering troll.
  - solardev 2y ago
    Who knows, Elon might decide X is too long tomorrow and rename it to / Eventually it's just going to become some invisible unicode char. Fits the "space" theme better.
solardev 2y ago
They renamed Twitter? Why would they do that? Sounds like the kind of thing that a bored and stoned billionaire would do for the lulz

a2128 2y ago

In my experience, the local governments here most often use Facebook, not Twitter

diggan 2y ago

> Is that true in the EU? In the US, there are certainly agencies and local governments who primarily or only communicate real time news through Twitter. Hard to say how it works across the EU, but in Spain, there was a point where many of the various local arms of government did use Twitter as the primary tool to reach people, at least here in Barcelona/Catalunya. Not all agencies, and never as the only communication tool, but things often appeared there first. At one point, Telegram was added to the mix, and seems it's usage is kind of spread now, but again, never the only communication path, just another channel. Twitter usage fell at some point too. All the important information still goes out via proper websites. That a government agency would use a for-profit platform for its primary and only way of communicating with the citizens sounds absolutely bananas to me, but I guess it makes sense for a country centered around for-profit enterprises.

solardev 2y ago
Yeah, and in the US, governments are typically pretty poorly resourced and IT starved. The average local gov can barely use MS Office, much less manage a proper blog site. The federal / state / local divide makes it more complicated too. We don't have one government but several, usually at least four (fed, state, county, city), not even counting the agencies that actually do things. They all end up reinventing the wheel in some shitty way or else just using some staffer's Twitter or Facebook account.
- diggan 2y ago
  > The federal / state / local divide makes it more complicated too. We don't have one government but several, usually at least four (fed, state, county, city), It's exactly the same here (except besides those, we also have the various EU entities "above", so I guess more complicated actually?), my Spanish and Catalan compatriots seem to handle that just fine.
  - solardev 2y ago
    I'm jealous! The EU in general seems much more livable, at least the parts I've visited. The US is a pretty gilded but otherwise relatively dysfunctional society.