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In response to "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)" by Krusty

do they have it automated? Alerts go out automatically from their site to twitter etc, and it's no longer working properly? -- nm

Posted by Andie Apr 28 '23, 06:13

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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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