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Surely you're not saying they shouldn't have had a Twitter presence?

Or is this more of a "they should have left when Elon took over" kind of thing? In which case, they probably thought that the majority of people who follow(ed) them on there wouldn't have left immediately - not least because there weren't any good alternatives* at the time - so it would have made sense to maintain a presence, which I think is what's actually going on.

* Yes, Mastodon existed, but you've got to think about the average person here. There's a reason the first people on there were academics and tech folks.

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brachiosaurus@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It’s the government, they spend millions of public money in pr, they should have never had a twitter account to begin with and should have used their own tools.

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- palordrolap@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Government creates announcement feed. No-one knows about it because they can only advertise it on their own announcement feed.
  
  What now?
  
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rglullis@communick.news ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Surely you’re not saying they shouldn’t have had a Twitter presence

No, they shouldn’t have a Twitter presence. All public institutions should require full authority over the domain used for mass communication.

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- palordrolap@fedia.io ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  This is a bit like saying that governments shouldn't post notices in public places.
  
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  - rglullis@communick.news ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    How?
    
    Twitter is not a public place and has been looking more and more like the opposite of it. Nowadays you can not even go someone’s profile to browse their timeline without logging in.
    
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    palordrolap@fedia.io ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    @rglullis @abeorch
    
    It may not be a public place per se, but it is a place where a very large cohort of the general public go.
    
    Perhaps my analogy should have been "This is bit like saying that governments shouldn't make announcements on television and radio stations not under government control."
    
    The same logic applies there. Of course they should. A large cohort of the general public watch television and listen to the radio (less so these days in the age of the Internet, but people do still watch and listen there.).
    
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  - abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    @palordrolap @rglullis @brachiosaurus Government should post things in publoc places but X and Facebook arent public. They are like shopping malls - free to talk into but put restrictions around what you can do, substitute public law for.private contractual agreements and they replace public justice for their abitrary decision making about behalviour and extract costs ( data, tracking, attention sellijg & emotional manulipulation) from visitors. All of these things are bad for citizen involvement.
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