Actually... that sounds like a good idea to me.

Except for the part where no one would pay attention to it because it's Twitter, and the part where the government controls the platform, making internal surveillance and censorship inevitable. It would probably just wind up a PR machine for the party in power.

But government employees, from the President all the way down to, say, interns having an official and direct means of communication with the people, on public record? I'm all for it.

This is what I was thinking. If the Trump org started their own Mastodon instance and syndicated it to Twitter/FB using their APIs, I wonder what might happen. They'd have to restrict signups, but if they provided a read-only, http version (cached) that could be interesting.