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Krusty/ty97 : "New York’s MTA is abandoning bus and train alerts on Twitter" as it is no longer reliable -- (link)

Posted by decline (aka Decline) Apr 28 '23, 06:04

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https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/27/23701597/mta-ends-twitter-subway-train-alerts-reliability-api (www.theverge.com)

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Motherfuckers Touching my Ass. -- nm - Qale Apr 28, 08:04
I really thought we'd have a reliable twitter clone by now. -- nm - judge indianapolis jones Apr 28, 06:28 8
- I mean, if companies had stood up Mastodon instance, we would. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 28, 08:20
- I honestly think that like Facebook nothing can replace it. -- nm - MDH Apr 28, 06:52 1
  - network effect is real -- nm - oblique Apr 28, 06:55
- A new Twitter can't immediately be as good as the old Twitter that's been around for years. The accounts people want to follow don't all move - mara 🍂 Apr 28, 06:43 3
  - I get it. I feel like the media moving en masse would get celebs to move would get normies to move. but it almost has to be a targeted, consolidated - judge indianapolis jones Apr 28, 06:52 2
    - Running a social network is hard. Scaling is hard. Moderation is hard. Getting the network effect is hard. -- (link) - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Apr 28, 07:16 1
      - oh yes. important to note that I don't envy anyone who wants to get into this business. I'm being greedy for sure. -- nm - judge indianapolis jones Apr 28, 07:17
- It is astounding really. Because it would have taken off like a rocket if it was even just somewhat viable -- nm - Jovian Apr 28, 06:36
I hope companies and utilities continue to bail on the fascist app -- nm - Pippy can't read Apr 28, 06:08 1
- but we need utilities to use it to communicate. it's a double edged sword. -- nm - judge indianapolis jones Apr 28, 07:00
I'm not sure what they mean by train alerts. Are they unable to tweet about train issues like a broken down train causing delays? -- (edited) - Krusty Apr 28, 06:07 8
- do they have it automated? Alerts go out automatically from their site to twitter etc, and it's no longer working properly? -- nm - Andie Apr 28, 06:13 7
  - the minimum cost for twitter API is now $42k per month (we learned that this week when xbox quit API). I think that dorsey's twitter a) charged less - judge indianapolis jones Apr 28, 06:56 4
    - I’m not sure Twitter has the ability to differentiate greater good. Remember the check marks were apparently a manual process - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Apr 28, 08:25
    - i don't think Elon really understands 'greater good' at all, anymore. I think he did, once. -- nm - Andie Apr 28, 07:02 2
      - I think he had his own idea of what that meant, sure. So did Robert Moses, for example, and I think the parallels are pretty clear. - znufrii 🦄 Apr 28, 07:18
      - I agree with this completely. -- nm - judge indianapolis jones Apr 28, 07:06
  - That would make sense. It sucks that they can't automate the process but they can still manually tweet about service issues which - Krusty Apr 28, 06:39
  - NWS stopped using twitter to send their automated tweets because twitter wanted to start charging them for the api - decline Apr 28, 06:18

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