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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.
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.
Musks’s bizarre decisions in running Twitter seem to stem from a belief that the Twitter platform itself is what draws in users, rather than the content on the platform. It’s quite baffling how someone who seems to spend every waking moment on the service has such a poor understanding of it.
Or maybe the worlds greatest genius just got in a dick waving contest with himself and lost.
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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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Musks’s bizarre decisions in running Twitter seem to stem from a belief that the Twitter platform itself is what draws in users, rather than the content on the platform. It’s quite baffling how someone who seems to spend every waking moment on the service has such a poor understanding of it.
I can't be convinced that this whole situation isn't just a group of tyrannical regimes and finance heavies clubbing together to bury Twitter (often used as a co-ordination place against their interests) and are simply using Musk as a front man because they have leverage over him. Or maybe the worlds greatest genius just got in a dick waving contest with himself and lost.
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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.
And more and more stuff can be done by scanning your MyNumber card now as well.
I haven't sent a fax in 10 years.
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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.
Personally 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?
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I can't be convinced that this whole situation isn't just a group of tyrannical regimes and finance heavies clubbing together to bury Twitter (often used as a co-ordination place against their interests) and are simply using Musk as a front man because they have leverage over him. Or maybe the worlds greatest genius just got in a dick waving contest with himself and lost.
It's an attack on progressives. That's how I've been viewing all of this. I can believe Zuckerberg is not a fan of Musks handling because Z tried to keep his users but manipulate their beliefs via targeted political posts (and this worked to some degree). Musk screwed the pooch and is just kicking out his users, which doesn't disempower them, it just makes them look elsewhere.
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It's an attack on progressives. That's how I've been viewing all of this. I can believe Zuckerberg is not a fan of Musks handling because Z tried to keep his users but manipulate their beliefs via targeted political posts (and this worked to some degree). Musk screwed the pooch and is just kicking out his users, which doesn't disempower them, it just makes them look elsewhere.
Interesting - but I don’t assume malicious intent when incompetence is a simpler explanation. Wealth does not imply universal competence, though it often gives its beneficiaries such a delusion.
Um, 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.
During covid Taiwan IIRC from an interview with Audrey Tang also used SMS with great results.