Why is anyone considering staying on X?
Well I mean it's a disease agency. Missinformation on X is bad. Their job however is about getting the word out to people of what to do to avoid diseases. People don't switch networks to follow their favorite health agencies. So... if the job is to warn people about serious shit... it kind of is important to be where the people are currently and try and get the facts heard among the misinformation.
The whole reason Twitter was popular was to be informed by the people you follow.
No one that is still there gives any sort of fuck about correct information, just bail. Stop legitimizing this Nazi bullhorn for God's sake.
What's the point then when the important information can't be freely read by the population without a xitter account. It made sense when you could read tweets without forced login, but now is useless
Never said exclusively... a group warning of health risks etc... should be using every avenue they can.
I hadn’t used my twitter account in over a year, but today finally deleted all my posts and disabled the account.
I had it for 16 years and thought it’d feel different, but I’ve been so far away from it now I really had no emotions to shutting it down. It was easy, and now I have no ties to that garbage any more.
It's hard to feel any emotions while severing such impersonal relationships. I would advise you to do it whenever you feel like it's the correct thing to do. Go where the users shine, the memes flow and the owners aren't dipshit billionaires who mine your data, restrict the free internet and pollute your online experiences with conspiratorial nazi bullshit. Be a digital nomad.
At this point Musk might greet all your health-related updates with a 1000x boost of anti-vax nonsense from RFK Jr and an army of anti-vax bots spewing Nazi rhetoric, then you getting sued and your account banned if you suggest something "fishy" is happening
Fuck this absolute steaming pile of a website and the nutjob that smeared his shit all over it. No government agency should even think of using it for anything regarding public communications
I don't know about others but I'm there for the porn
Objectively the most rational reason to be there. It's named X, after all.
Why did anyone join it in the first place?
It USED to be a decent source for news and updates on stuff but that's long gone. I deleted my account just before that weird billionaire guy bought it and don't regret it one bit.
... considers? Just do it. Jesus.
Wowowow.. it's an EU agency... First they need to issue a communication that sets outs a vision for a roadmap to create a framework for an alliance that will create an agenda for the steering committee that will issue a request for a study of merits.
Then they can schedule to do something.
The kicker is that in any member state that'd be politics trying to bury something in procedure, while on the European level it's the only way to get anything done. Leave out a step and the thing just fizzles because noone even knows about it.
...not, I mean, quitting X. But in general.
The EU has been designed so that no one in any position can abuse his (or her) powers or at least make it extremely difficult to do so, with an added layer of mistrust between the states requiring even more checks and balances so it can lead to some ridiculously complicated processes since not much can be done without a majority consensus.
Deciding to leave twitter or not will lead to a barrage of comments from all the countries, so I'm not even surprised that even that decision has to be carefully managed.
I'm poking fun but for all it's flaws the EU has achieved a surprising amount of things.
You're basically just describing the flaws of democracies.
Yes, the EU can be slow to move on some points, but others they are the first. And they mostly get things right, because they use much time on thinking it through. And no, they're not right every time, but I believe they are more than others.
They have a concept of quitting.
They first have to see our god-king's reaction then act appropriately.
yeah they can drop a pinned message on X for leaving and mentioned their next platform. But, I don't think Elon will Happy about that
What’s he gonna do about it?
Sue them?
Considers? This is not news worthy. This is like showing up to a skin head rally and announcing you are considering friending a black person. Grow a spine and do the right thing.
If your business uses X send a letter to the head of marketing and your ceo asking them to stop or start a petition.
They have bluesky account as well https://bsky.app/profile/ecdc-eu.bsky.social, threads https://www.threads.net/@ecdc.eu and mastodon https://mastodon.social/@ECDC_EU@respublicae.eu But, the mastodon and threads seems abandoned.
The threads one looks like has posts from 2 days ago so I think it is used.
The Mastodon one says it is an unofficial automated mirror.
Oops. Yeah I just noticed that. Well, Mastodon users can use bridgy to this bluesky account to get latest feeds
It’s not like the crazies from over there will believe anything that agency says anyway, so better just gtfo.
Like RFK Jr won't reinstate it and make it "the official communication channel"?
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