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I posted this yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28281472

this is an issue (and I fail to see this mentioned here today) in that public sector agencies use Twitter to disseminate emergency information. With a login wall, this information is not getting out to the people who need it the most.

I mod /r/Twitter and saw about a week ago a number of threads complaining about a new login-wall. This shit is 100% user-hostile, Twitter.



Beyond the Login wall, Public Sector Agencies should not be using Twitter as a Primary communication method, it would be Ok to have the messages Copied their from Official Sources, but there should be Official Sources to obtain the same info, at the same time, update in the same frequency.


Seriously, how is Twitter better than an RSS feed for this use?


the people in the public sector don't know any better. It's going to take regulation and legislation to force a position into standards-compliance.


I’ve complained to government agencies about using Facebook and not making their posts public. Maddening.


The real culprits here are these public sector agencies. They shouldn't use inaccessible mediums like Twitter as their primary channel of information.


Yes, and no. They use what's available and what gets them in front of the users. IMO I don't see anything wrong with that.

The problem comes if they don't provide any other way to access their information.


I like Debian's approach to this; publish short news on their own site and also automatically republish those items on social networks. Full blog posts get similar treatment.

https://micronews.debian.org/ https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Publicity/micronews https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Publicity/otherSN


reply because I can't edit. even HN knows how User Hostile Twitter is:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...




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