Gregory's ServerTwitter, once the most powerful real-time information system ever built, so much so someone accidentally live tweeted the death of bin Laden, now not only can’t be used to save lives from bad weather, but won’t even let the existence of bad weather be seen by the weather people.
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@ematts @davidaugust this exactly! They need a mastodon instance. The people who work there can toot from their official mastodon work accounts. Are they verified? Well they are rooting from the official domain so yeah… they are probably official. @davidaugust well you see, nobody could figure out how to make it profitable, especially the current owner, so it doesn't deserve to exist @smn @davidaugust why does it need to be profitable?  @Riyadh144 @smn @davidaugust Pretty sure there was an invisible /s at the end of Justin's post. @davidaugust Twitter is a private company with zero guarantee that any message will arrive in a timely manner or arrive at all. It should NEVER be used to disseminate important information. @corb @davidaugust The fact is though that it has been possible to reliably use it for exactly that for years, until Space Karen came along. What do we go back to - megaphones and sirens? @flowers @davidaugust i didn’t read it all, but it seems like a real thing. I had no idea. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-13257940 @definitelynotacorporatespy @davidaugust holy hell. i was in middle school when it happened so this is very much news to me. that is *wild*  @davidaugust @davidaugust You actually think this makes sense? How much browsing does this official account do everyday? Shouldn't it be solely used for providing info? @davidaugust@mastodon.online something something essential infrastructure in private hands. @davidaugust @avantgeared @davidaugust the feds should just start their own mastodon instance and have their various agencies accounts on it. @bwtony @davidaugust Yeah, I was making fun of elon. @davidaugust But corporates and #media people are largely unaware of all this, and still crave the volume of their #birdsite #followers, even though there is no measure of actual eyeballs. There is little point in offering them Mastodon when the surrounding #ecosystem is still so poorly developed and the volumes so low. Which is a great pity. @davidaugust @Catawu It's time for the National Weather Service to #join the #fediverse. when someone is SO entitled as Musk, not much has any value. What an absolute asshole he's revealed himself to be. Out of personal dignity and self respect people should leave that site completely, @davidaugust The National Weather Service relies on Twitter to find out what the weather is? Shouldn't they have an army of meteorologists working that out for them? @confusedbunny @davidaugust cost cutting (more work with less people) and price gouging... it's the capitalist profit path. @confusedbunny @davidaugust I know someone who works at NWS, and they do have a good crew, but the more ears and eyes out there the better. Especially in less populated areas.  @davidaugust i love this. Everyone finally realizes twitter is not fit for this purpose (or rather any purpose) and new, better systems will be put in its place
@davidaugust can't see how this is going to appeal to advertisers. Over a weekend is not the best time to expect the views of marketers but from Monday morning ... who knows? @davidaugust So waitaminute. Wait. Nat. Weather Service can't post data on Twitter, so they tweet that to their followers on Twitter? Just sayin'... That's like the Microsoft classic, "Unable to locate keyboard. Strike any key to continue." @davidaugust If Mastodon can master live at a similar level to what the birdsite could do- would be a game changer. Main bit I miss. (if there's hints for settings/tricks that would optimize 'live' type posts for events - point me in the right direction please) 'breaking' @davidaugust the concept of a public digital square should be treated as a utility. A public utility. Like Mastodon :) The minute a boneheaded guy like Elon puts his mitts on it, it’s over. He has too much power over it now that he owns it. Remember before he bought Twitter the free online community kicked his ass regularly. Notice how that is pretty impossible now with the blue checks and the rate limiting and now the users needing to be logged in to read tweets. It’s become his dungeon.  @davidaugust should have paid their cloud bill https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/twitter-refusing-to-pay-google-cloud-bill-report   @davidaugust This is actually kinda insane. I hadn't thought about the impact for Weather reports and other similar things @davidaugust I wonder if this also opened up a new DoS vector? Just send 600 tweets where you mention a specific user. Would their client then immediately try to load these and use up their daily budget? Or is there also a limit on how many tweets one can send? But then, someone would just need 10 accounts and send sixty tweets each? |
@davidaugust Wow, just... wow.