ABC exiting Twitter: Australia’s national broadcaster shuts down almost all accounts on Elon Musk’s X
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The public broadcaster says interactions on the platform are ‘toxic’ as it closes almost all its Twitter accounts

The public broadcaster says interactions on the platform are ‘toxic’ as it closes almost all its Twitter accounts.

      • transmatrix@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        It really makes the most sense. I mean, all these big companies manage their own webservers and mail servers, why shouldn’t they also host a Mastodon server?

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      Yeah it was amazing to see even the BBC start up their own instance and join Mastodon. Hope something similar happens here.

      • Gsus4@feddit.nlEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Last time I checked, they were just mirroring Xcrements with links to said Xcrement :/ talk about a half-assed attempt.

        PS: turns out I was catastrophically wrong, they have an instance with the works e.g. BBC_News_Labs@social.bbc

  • youngalfred@lemm.eeEnglish
    46·
    1 year ago

    But they’re leaving their two main accounts - news and sports - on Twitter? The two things that people really use the ABC for?

    Sounds like an ‘exit’ to me.

    • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.mlEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      As usual. Another thing some of them do is announcing their Mastodon account but in reality it is nothing more than a Twitter repost bot and zero interaction.

    • BNE@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      Nah - the ABC was pretty big on its twitter integration. We had a few long running, decade+ old forum-style shows where people could/would tweet in live to be part of the program.

      This is a big thing for Aunty, in terms of its culture.

    • Selmafudd@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I’m just guessing here but I’d assume this is a knock-on effect from Stan Grant’s resignation from copping abuse, if individual show’s accounts are closed and they just leave the general news or sport accounts you would think people are less likely to associate those account with a presenter of a specific show to target hate towards that individual. We also have the recent industrial relation laws around the employer’s responsibility in providing a mentally safe work environment.

  • wildchandelure@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    1 year ago

    There will only be four remaining official accounts for Australia’s public broadcaster: @abcnews, @abcsport, @abcchinese and the master @abcaustralia account. ABC Chinese reaches Chinese-speaking audiences on X.

    Pretty sure this is just their biggest things left over, which doesn’t seem to be doing much? It’s odd.