@Natasha_Jay I said back when Twitter was new:Government communications should never be first on a third-party platform. They should build an open system for notifications, either RSS or something that allows explicit push. If people like Twitter, Facebook, or whatever the kids are using now want to build a bridge from that so that their users can consume things, that's fine. But it shouldn't be public money building that bridge. It's a thing that adds value to that commercial service and so should be paid for by the people who want it.I said the same thing about BBC iPlayer when it launched, but they still maintain proprietary client apps for a variety of proprietary platforms and use license-fee money to promote lock-in to platforms owned and controlled by foreign corporations.
