Context: Heard something about an active shooter this week and followed a link to the Baltimore Police twitter account[0].
As I'm no longer logged in, I see tweets from 2021 and 2017 with no indication that there's new content I'm missing. If this is how public services are trying to get the word re:ongoing events, it's a terrible option.
(granted, you said journalists and politicians, not public services…)
I think that we just assume that complete platform death (Friendster, MySpace) can’t happen anymore, but I think it definitely can.
Network effects make AND break platforms.
(I don’t use either)