Hadnt realised Twitter put in place limits like that. So literally they are blocking their power users, the ones who make the most content for other users.
Japan prefectures drift away from posting disaster warnings on X
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#22Um, 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.
>NPCs
Let's not. Everybody has different amounts of time to spend on forming their opinion about a given topic. If there's a topic you care about, and someone hasn't yet thought about it as much as you, in no way does that imply they're an unthinking automaton and it certainly gives you no grounds to call them one.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
>NPCs Let's not. Everybody has different amounts of time to spend on forming their opinion about a given topic. If there's a topic you care about, and someone hasn't yet thought about it as much as you, in no way does that imply they're an unthinking automaton and it certainly gives you no grounds to call them one.
Nah that's matrix thinking. There are wolves and sheep, so you better be a lion.
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#24Same 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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#25Personally I found the shuffles with the API a huge pain. I have a small bot and I previously just used a command line client to post my automated tweets. With the API changes and new keys those clients all stopped working and the maintainers were uninterested in fixing them. So now I have to implement oauth myself. Which as a busy person and poor programmer is a significant amount of work. I went with paying IFTT a…
> Personally I found the shuffles with the API a huge pain. Why is it when Apple does this nearly every year right on schedule, they're lauded as stewards of progress?
The Twitter API changes seem to have no real reasoning behind them whatsoever, except "well maybe we could squeeze more money out of the developers", which isn't likely to result in sympathetic attitudes.
In contrast, one could argue that Apple's API changes are generally intended to achieve some actual purpose (refactoring, better security, etc.) Of course, whether or not they succeed at that is a separate debate entirely.
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#26Um, 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.
C'mon. I'm totally into tech etc and even I don't use any RSS based tools. Warning systems need to hook into the platforms people are already using. People aren't going to go out of their way to sign up to an alert that will probably never happen.
I don't think there's any country where most people use Twitter at all, much less use it often enough that they would incidentally see an emergency alert from their local government.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Japan is Twitters second biggest market.
For consumers maybe? But for official government dissemination of information? This is the topic of discussion. Try doing anything remotely "official" in Japan without fax or a paper process with half a dozen ink stamps. It can't be done.
In the real world, localities are routinely using Line or Twitter to send information to inhabitants. This is maybe on top of some paper fliers or announcements on loudspeakers.
I don't know what this looks like in other countries, but we're talking about telling people about something, not updating your registered address.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Japan is Twitters second biggest market.
For consumers maybe? But for official government dissemination of information? This is the topic of discussion. Try doing anything remotely "official" in Japan without fax or a paper process with half a dozen ink stamps. It can't be done.
Fax usage in Japan is often exaggerated. Paper and stamp process is the real.
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#29Loginwall is critically bad for public information usage.
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#30Um, 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.
They almost always do have a website and self hosted stuff. That no one uses. So the government and companies also try to reach out to platforms where they people are. Which was once TV and radio. Is now social media.