Following Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign announcement, users on Elon Musk's platform, X (formerly Twitter), discovered they were unable to follow the vice president's political campaign account.
Honestly this isn’t too surprising or unreasonable. The White House can and should reach as many people as possible for a variety of communication reasons. Twitter is still wildly popular and has reach, so it’s a no brainer to tag along. They also post on many other social media platforms for the same reason. It’s not really a big deal imo.
I really disagree that this is the “real issue”. Love it or hate it Twitter is still one of the biggest social media sites out there. In this day in age to expect any prospective Presidential candidate not to have a major presence on a platform like that is just silly.
I don’t use Twitter and don’t care for it, but seriously come on.
How is the White House still using Twitter?
This is the real issue. Why the flippity duck do they use X? Well for one, they are pretty desperate for potential voters right now.
Honestly this isn’t too surprising or unreasonable. The White House can and should reach as many people as possible for a variety of communication reasons. Twitter is still wildly popular and has reach, so it’s a no brainer to tag along. They also post on many other social media platforms for the same reason. It’s not really a big deal imo.
I would love to see the next president prioritize using mastodon for all federal communications.
I really disagree that this is the “real issue”. Love it or hate it Twitter is still one of the biggest social media sites out there. In this day in age to expect any prospective Presidential candidate not to have a major presence on a platform like that is just silly.
I don’t use Twitter and don’t care for it, but seriously come on.
They should host a Mastodon server at .gov