Japan prefectures drift away from posting disaster warnings on X
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Japan prefectures drift away from posting disaster warnings on X
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#2This is probably how it starts. Users leaving for very practical reasons, with others leaving when the posts dry up.
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#3Archive link for the full article (oh the irony):
https://archive.ph/5oeJ0
National Rail (in the UK) still post live information on Twitter, which is now effectively invisible. Very annoying. Example: https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service-disruptions/harpenden... links to: https://twitter.com/search?q=Harpenden%20(from%3Anationalrai... which just shows me an "X" login page.
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#5Um, good? Facebook and Twitter should never have been allowed to become the default for this, anyway.
These services should have an always up web page. With an RSS feed. So anybody can connect to it and shove the warnings out however they want.
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#6Same thing happened here in Australia, the ABC stopped posting a emergency and many other things
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/09/abc-austr...
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#7Um, good? Facebook and Twitter should never have been allowed to become the default for this, anyway . These services should have an always up web page. With an RSS feed. So anybody can connect to it and shove the warnings out however they want.
Exactly. Or if for some reason they need the social bit Mastodon is an option. Additionally it has RSS output feeds for everything.
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#8I’ve been hoping for a Twitter Japan fork like there was for yahoo!…
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#9I'm surprised a country still thoroughly obsessed with fax machines is posting anything on X.
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#10Um, good? Facebook and Twitter should never have been allowed to become the default for this, anyway . These services should have an always up web page. With an RSS feed. So anybody can connect to it and shove the warnings out however they want.
RSS is a great, albeit forgotten, technology. The problem is the social media-obsessed NPCs of the world don't know how to use it. It didn't help that all the major browser vendors removed the technology and you need a standalone client these days.