And diplomatic channels including back channels are the gold standard for diplomatic and undiplomatic communications. Let’s not ruin a good thing by replacing them with Twitter.
To even confuse Twitter with a diplomatic channel is a bit mind-boggling. It's a PR/propaganda channel and sometimes a way to distribute informational notices to the public. That's it.
Edit: Yep, we agree. I was just amplifying the point a bit :)
So they position themselves as a broadcast medium for politicians, elites, journalists, etc. and then these people use it like that, but then Twitter wants to maintain a particular narrative.
So, basically, you can have at it, but only what we allow you to say.
If it comes to that, they will wither as users evaporate.
I’m not complaining that they finally came to an epiphany that what they aspired to be was something that they could never truly be.