It was an available. Open public medium with more open interconnectivity than anything else.

It was incredibly easy to share & relay things quickly.

Nothing else in my view comes close. Twitter had won Metcalfe's Law.

Metcalfe's law states that the value or impact of a network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system.

There's places like Facebook where there's lots of users but most only connect to people they know. Blogs and email can connect people who don't K ow each other, but they have to go make the connection. Twitter has an open culture, where people reshare things, or people converse in threads, & we see those cool things & follow those other people. Twitter was the only successful self growing system on the planet.

Now the connections are all being severed & the network is dying. Such a fucking sad shame pity. This is a burning of the Library of Alexandria of our age. Also no one can afford to look into the archive anymore either so truly some dark Dark Ages shit. Absolutely tragic & monstrous, just vile villianshit.

Because millions of people use the platform regularly.

Why would they _not_ publish alerts on a communication channel that millions of people demonstrably check frequently?

This is a genuine question: do you get this information from their VHF band reporting? or check their website regularly? or their RSS feeds? moreover even if you do, do you think those are likely to more frequently used/checked (or even available) by people than twitter, Facebook, etc?

It’s not the way, it’s a way. Life-saving notices are often redundant to reach as wide of an audience as possible, e.g. public radio, commercial radio, sirens.

Because until a gormless billionaire wrecked it, it worked well for this function.

It's another channel and the more channels available the more they use. Which is the appropriate way to distribute such informations.

Agreed, As a government agency how would you have any confidence that Twitter won't shadow ban your account?

These social media companies aren't Public services, nor have they been deemed critical enough to be required to provide the same facilities as traditionally regulated communication channels.

It’s not. The EAS broadcast system exists for this purpose.

Because it’s where people are.