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I can't understand why government offices for many countries are still on Twitter. At least Germany has their own mastodon service, but my home country Finland
by pimeys 2y ago
I can't understand why government offices for many countries are still on Twitter. At least Germany has their own mastodon service, but my home country Finland still uses Twitter.
- SoftTalker 2y agoBecause most ordinary people are on Twitter and not Mastodon
- JoshTriplett 2y agoThat's circular, though: the more services become available elsewhere, the easier it is for people to switch.
- jahewson 2y agoPeople don’t move to places without ordinary people for “services”. That’s not how social networks work.
- jeltz 2y agoIn my experience it is the other way round. The reason people are on Twitter is because politicians are there. If they move the journalists and politically interested will quickly follow.
- lm28469 2y agoMost ordinary people are on neither
- SoftTalker 2y agoI guess that depends on location but I’ll refine my statement to say ordinary people are overwhelmingly more likely to be on Twitter than Mastodon.
- jeltz 2y agoOrdinary people are on neither. The group which is on Twitter are politicians and they can decide to move to Mastodon if they want.
- andrepd 2y agoThat's a pretty bad argument. For one the majority of people are on neither. For two, it's almost always about reading, and twitter doesn't let you read posts without an account.
- timeon 2y agoThat maybe true for Meta services but Twitter was never really a thing in EU.
- dtquad 2y agoTwitter was never really big in most European countries. I only have an account to follow AI hype and drama.
- abdullahkhalids 2y agoI understand why everyone is one Twitter - because people and important people/orgs are there. What I don't understand is, why not also publish the posts on a Mastodon account. You don't have to engage there, but at least don't force people to use Twitter.
- MiguelX413 2y ago> I understand why everyone is one Twitter False premise, most people are not on Twitter. Outside of Japan and the US, comparatively few people use Twitter.
- abdullahkhalids 2y agoIn Pakistan Twitter is banned (and blocked by ISPs) because Twitter won't ban the accounts of people/orgs the Pakistani State doesn't like. So, Twitter is not accessible in Pakistan without VPN (which are psuedo banned as well). Yet, all the politicians (both government and non-government), media personalities, and many state run institutions actively run Twitter accounts. So it is one of the primary ways to understand what they are saying.
- qingcharles 2y agoI don't have a problem with public bodies being on Twitter, but they should definitely be on somewhere else too. They need to be where the people are, and people are going other places.