Comment by fwn
1 day ago
Organizations very much rely on websites for the information they share. I don't even know how most data would need to be sliced to fit into tweets.
Like, how would you tweet exchange rates consistently and accessibly?
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/eu...
Microblogging, as a format, is a niche. If you do use it as an organization, you need an authoritative place on the Internet that you control, from which all other data ideally is derived. You can still mirror it to Twitter/Mastodon or whatever just fine.
Deciding to be held hostage by a third-party platform so that someone in the organization can save three clicks is just unprofessional.
Oh you mean statistical data, I see they often post progress on some public infrastructure work, you post 100 words at a time and split it across posts
>If you do use it as an organization, you need an authoritative place on the Internet that you control
This is a very American/european, technical way of thinking. The average person in those countries will ignore it at best, and see it as unnecessary at worst. It's a losing proposition because, no one reads the website. The goal is not to archive stuff but to win the next electoral campaign. So, like a company, they focus all their efforts in that direction.
The reason it's American/European is because other places got internet access only after social media was established so around 2012, so your idea for them is... A social media page. And a social media page costs zero dollars to host and can be managed by someone non technical. A dedicated web page is very often the exact opposite and thus undesirable due to cost