Japanese disaster prevention X account can’t post anymore after hitting API limit - The issue has arisen after major Tsunami warnings have been issued in areas of Japan following a strong earthquake::undefined

  • @[email protected]
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    831 year ago

    Love it when corporations have more power than government entities.

    The dystopian future is coming faster than ever

  • @[email protected]
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    691 year ago

    Letting people senselessly get injured or die seems to be a common theme in Elon’s ventures, so I’m not all that surprised about this.

  • MasterInu
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    451 year ago

    Twitter was useless but X is just a vanity project at this point

  • edric
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    21 year ago

    Didn’t they set up their own Mastodon instance? Hopefully they announced it nationwide so they could get as many people as possible on it.

  • @[email protected]
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    19 months ago

    did they name themselves after the guys from NGE or is that Organisation from NGE named after them?

  • @[email protected]
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    111 year ago

    Have multiple accounts and rotate through them with each post. But then you have to make sure all of your followers are following all accounts. It’s a shitty workaround but it’s a shitty platform to begin with.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      At that point, I think it would be more reasonable to move people to a more resilient network, like someone else recommended, Mastodon would be good for this.

      And that’s not to blindly shill for Mastodon. It genuinely happens to do this one thing particularly well.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      Right, because it’s not on the platform to remain how it was. It’s now the users’ responsibility to completely change how they interact with the service so they can have the same functionality.

    • @[email protected]
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      141 year ago

      One likely reason they’re still on X is so those that didn’t get the memo to use their app or otherwise can’t still can still get alerts. Switching to multiple accounts would require people who likely wouldn’t notice to follow the others, and those that would do that would hopefully have downloaded the app. And yes, if a person isn’t noticing they need to get the app they likely won’t notice a critical alert, but when you’re dealing with people’s lives everything counts.

  • @[email protected]
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    161 year ago

    If only there was some sort of legal agreement that should and could be reached when the govt wants to use some private platform to communicate something important to people. If only.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      I can’t even install software on my work computer unless IT and security have vetted it, questioned the company if necessary, and approved it. Government and corporate use of social media platforms should be no different. I bet the lack of privacy most of these platforms have wound be against the security policy of any company with a competent IT and/or compliance team. Imagine what social media would be like if all the corporate clients were just like “nope, not happening”, hell, we might even have slightly more responsible social media platforms.

  • @[email protected]
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    381 year ago

    Why is a critical service like disaster precention using an unreliable service like Twitter?

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      1 year ago

      It’s probably one of numerous ways they try and reach people. Wouldn’t be surprised if they have it set up to spam alerts out through various mechanisms including social media. It’s just that one platform is now complete dogshit. Maybe this failure will hasten Twitter’s decline in Japan.

    • @[email protected]
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      161 year ago

      Why not? Wouldn’t you want information going out on every available service? They likely have info going out on Facebook as well.

  • @[email protected]
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    101 year ago

    I remember reading that Twitter was pretty famous on Japan so that’s why they are still there.

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      1 year ago

      Come on, this is totally the japanese government’s fault. They should be aware of the limits of the services they use. How are we blaming Twitter for the incompetence of the japanese government? I get that we want to hate in Twitter but how incompetent is that team? A disaster prevention team didn’t forsee the limits of the communication services they use?

      I don’t like Twitter but come on, stop shifting the blame.

  • @[email protected]
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    31 year ago

    Holy shit, didn’t know there is an actual Nerv created by an organisation named Gehirn. I mean, good what they are doing, just hope, that Gehirn doesn’t get around to do the instrumentality project. Otherwise we will get problems with angels