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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. Hard
by 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 agoYeah, 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 agoI'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.