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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 (www.dexerto.com)

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[–] silvercove@lemdro.id 33 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] arc@lemm.ee 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 10 months ago

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

[–] NoFun4You@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Let me just pull out the old Pidgeon