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> That is wholly inappropriate, and wasn't appropriate even when before it become some brain-worm infected oligarch's rhetoric megaphone. When you want to reac
by krisoft 2y ago
> That is wholly inappropriate, and wasn't appropriate even when before it become some brain-worm infected oligarch's rhetoric megaphone.
When you want to reach people you go to where the people are. You fish where the fish is. It is that simple. People did not join twitter because the police was posting there, the police post on twitter because that is where they can reach the people.
- pseudalopex 2y agoTwitter is a place where they can reach some people. Using it was appropriate. Using it exclusively was not.
- krisoft 2y ago> Using it was appropriate. Using it exclusively was not. That I can agree with. Usually what I have seen, at least where i live, is that no public body used it exclusively. They still had a website, they still talked with journalist, talked with radios, used flyers, whatever was appropriate in each situation. (Or at least they tried, not saying everyone was getting it always right.)
- johnnyanmac 2y agoTwitter almost literally started as a place to get updates on celebrities, designed closely to UI's seen in tickerboard updates. So the metaphor is more apt than you'd think.
- asah 2y agoTwitter was never a majority of Americans let alone 80-90+% share that justifies being a single outlet for a taxpayer funded agency.
- krapp 2y agoAn account costs nothing. You get an intern or someone to post on it now and then. It isn't exactly a deep commitment.
- apsurd 2y agoThat's not the argument at all. These public entities post _exclusively_ on Twitter as if it's the public square. It's not and it shouldn't be. The argument is not about how easy it is to create a Twitter account.
- irundebian 2y agoPlease give me an example of a police station which post exclusively on Twitter.
- throwthrowrow 2y agoDoes DOGE (Dept of Govt Efficiency) post exclusively on Twitter? Just wondering
- roenxi 2y agoThe people aren't on Twitter, pretty sure every time I've checked the stats Twitter users are a relative minority. It caters to the sort of people who enjoy communication without discussion - that might be the police's target audience for their communication but it isn't most people. I've been annoyed over the years because (not having an account) sometimes Twitter won't let me look at Tweets. Hopefully none of them contained useful info.
- noslenwerdna 2y agoJournalists are (or were) on Twitter though
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- paxys 2y agoTwitter used to be a good way to share information because the tweet link would expand into all the info you needed to see, regardless of whether you were a Twitter user or not. Today it sits behind an auth wall, and so is inaccessible to a majority of the population.
- consteval 2y agoThis is because the US has a history of inadequate public infrastructure. Local safety alerts and things of that nature are a public service, and there should be a system in place to perform them. There isn't, and still really isn't to this day. Sure, we have amber alerts and such but that's not really the same thing.