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Also whilst he's bought it, an awful lot of people used it for everything from entertainment to emergency information as it is/was a very easy way for the likes of schools, councils, police, fire brigade etc to put out information about potentially life threatening emergencies very quickly as it was a quick and easy place for people to check, and easy for even the non technical at say a school to put out a message.Because it's darkly amusing watching someone take a hellsite like Twitter and somehow managing to make it worse?
One of the things I saw more than one American user point out was that if say there was a school shooter alert, the school's official twitter/the twitter feeds from various teachers etc were often the best/only way to know what was actually happening and where to avoid in something like real time*, not to mention the more normal stuff about if the school was having to close due to weather or other issues.
It has a lot more immediate impact on many people's daily lives than most tech take overs.
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As an aside I've been seeing increasing numbers of people who've hit odd bugs with twitter, and several who have had attempts at hacking their accounts so are locked out, but no one seems to be in at Twitter to deal with them/the automated recovery tools aren't working correctly (apparently one of the 2fa systems has been up and down since around the time musk decided to do the server equivalent of randomly turning off window processes).
*IIRC Twitter feeds from schools/universities have been used several times to advise those affected of for example which building a potential threat was in/near on a campus, as "custom"/"official" systems didn't have that sort of flexibility or the students didn't have access to see it because it was aimed at staff.
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