X Kicked Off 2024 by Screwing Up During Japan's Earthquake Emergency ( www.vice.com )

stopthatgirl7 OP , 6 months ago

Twitter did eventually get its shit together and lift the API limits on NERV’s accounts, but people on JP Twitter were furious, and “Elon” in Japanese (イーロン) was trending, with people basically cussing him out for effing up Twitter by limiting NERV and getting rid of the chronological timeline. Folks were also upset at all the “reply zombies” (blue check bot accounts) commenting complete garbage like “nice” and “happy new year” in posts about the earthquake.

As for misinformation, the evening of the quake “人工地震” (manmade earthquake) was trending on Twitter, and NHK news yesterday actually had a segment on last night explaining that no, the quake was not manmade, and that misinformation was being spread on Twitter.

TWeaK , 6 months ago

So how have Twitter fucked up here then? NERV isn't a government body, it isn't an official public safety channel, it's a private not for profit organisation. The official government ones already have no limits, it's just everyone in Japan uses NERV because they're so damned good.

Now, I don't agree with API charges (much like data charges for internet, they aren't proportionate to cost) but setting that aside, NERV didn't automatically deserve the exemption and never even tried to get it.

Musk has still made a shit system, but it's not shit because of this event.

ZeroCool , 6 months ago

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