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I wonder why such an important piece of info is posted on social media but not on a dedicated webpage that can be linked to any social media posts.
Yay, privatization? Just post it to a social media platform so the official org doesn’t have to dedicate IT resources or further effort to it?
Social media has a very good ratio of information spreading versus effort required. It's also why it's a popular thing for misinformation and influence campaigns.
In contrast, if a government agency wants to make a website for this, it probably needs a proposal, budget request, approval by a commission, a bidding process, and other bureaucatic procedures put in place by politicians that wanted to lower spending.
And we got news like this.
Addition: Difficult, cumbersome, and bureaucratic to do doesn't mean they shouldn't do it. Those are just purely excuses.
How hard is it to hire some 23 year old who just graduated in IT and ask them to do it? Static webpages aren't hard, drag learned how to make them in high school.
Governments are probably a bit hesitant to go that route after a few pages like that got hacked and ended up full of Russian propaganda.
I mean, it's not like people would check that dedicated webpage on their own, and they are less likely to click on that webpage to get the additional details. Just put it on the platform most people are using and don't add extra steps to see what's needed.
If they're looking to Xitter it could be copy/pasted instead, but then updates get harder to manage.
if you read the article, you'd find out that the alert linked to the X post. it could be linking to a dedicated webpage instead, which wouldn't require logging in.
It should be linked to another page. Social media should never the be the primary source for anything like this.
Most, but not all people should be a deal breaker for a public service announcement.