They could definitely just post updates on their website, the infrastructure is there, running, if they want to inform people on Twitter it's just a bonus to message it through the network that is Twitter.
But important/urgent updates only via Twitter is definitely a huge no-no.
I assume that a major electric provider has the capacity to build a simple status update system where they post. It's much simpler than any "blog platform" case study used to assess junior engineers. You are assuming that it's their IT systems which crashed the electrical network and there's no sign of that at all at this moment, you are misleading in there to try to score a point, stop.
It's far easier to use Twitter but it doesn't mean it should be used, it fences out people like the OP and me, who do not have Twitter nor want to have Twitter, I don't want to be forced into using a private corporation service to get status updates from the electrical network where I live in. It's quite a simple proposition and very reasonable, not sure why you are so incensed by a quite reasonable expectation.
> Also, why do you assume that website wouldn't crash under the sudden 10000x load? It is an utterly useless solution, that wastes time and solves nothing.
Because it can be cached very easily, it's 2025 where setting up this kind of cache is extremely easy compared to 2005.
> Like does your engineering skills suddenly magically evaporate the moment Elon's name is mentioned?
Please, stop, you are too irrational to understand a very simple and reasonable thing, no need to start throwing Elon into this bullshit, just stop here with the rabid lunacy. I was against major corporations only posting updates on Twitter waaaay before Elon bought it, I still stand by it.
