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Re:B.C. government hit tweet limit amid wildfire evacuations by acheron on Thursday July 13, 2023 @09:46AM (#36709042)
Twitter has never been good for this purpose. Back when blue checks were unusual, you could tell who Twitter cared about: government accounts were “unverified”, but of course every 22 year old Gawker intern had one.
Re:B.C. government hit tweet limit amid wildfire evacuations by ethanbond on Thursday July 13, 2023 @09:53AM (#36709177)
? Twitter was theoretically not good for this purpose, but in practice was actually quite good. Which is, of course, what matters here in reality.

The status fixation on blue checks is so fucking absurd.