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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)

Posted by Krusty (aka Krustylu) Apr 28 '23, 06:07

I get my info from their app and it's rather reliable for things like when they next train will arrive or if there are issues on a train line.

I'm not sure why they can't tweet out about train issues unless it's something else they're talking about.

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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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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)

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