Twitter still doesn’t seem to understand what it’s product is.
Also the MTA clearly already has the infrastructure and provides this service in multiple other places.
They have 2 apps, their website, and SMS/email alerts. So the infrastructure is not an issue.
The only difference is if someone wants to look up an MTA alert they will now go to the website, like they always could, instead of possibly going to Twitter and being exposed to Twitter ads.
No one goes to Twitter for some hacked-together side channel notifications. Companies leech off it for the reach. If they want the customer base (value) they can pay.
Finding useful information, like whether their commute is affected, is why the Twitter customer base exists in the first place (and no, Twitter isn’t a “group text service at scale”…you know what are group text services? Group text services. Like WhatsApp, iMessage, Slack, whatever Google’s group chat of the day is, SMS, etc).
Asking the content providers to pay for the content is completely backwards.
But again, we already knew that Elon doesn’t understand what Twitter is