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
    • landsharkkidd@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      I mean ABC's TikTok gets a whole lot of views and likes. I don't blame them. Especially trying to get the younger people to listen to news, it's not a bad idea.

      Like there's that one person who does the news for the Australian Guardian's TikTok and people love them.

  • Marin_Rider@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    social media in general has just become cookers shouting at each other and anyone that will listen, twitter more than most. nothing would be lost by stopping to fuel the Qaddicts lunacy

  • Zagorath@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Title is a bit misleading:

    The ABC is shutting down almost all of its official accounts on Twitter – now known as X under Elon Musk’s ownership – citing “toxic interactions”, cost and better interaction with ABC content on other social media platforms.

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

    “Starting from today, other ABC accounts will be discontinued,” the ABC managing director, David Anderson, has told staff.

    So they're keeping their main, largest accounts alive.

      • Zagorath@aussie.zone
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        1 year ago

        Why would they leave over that? That's just a fact. They are state media. YouTube shows the same label.

        Sure, it's a bit unfair to tar the ABC with the same brush as RT, but it's reasonably easy for a viewer to see that one is state media of Australia and the other is state media of Russia, and that those two are obviously not equivalent.

        • Ban DHMO 🇦🇺@aussie.zoneM
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          1 year ago

          It's exactly that it harms their credibility when they are associated with RT. Apparently PBS and BBC left Twitter because of that

  • Sir Spud@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Bets on which news broadcaster will be the next one to pull out? Seeing Twitter's (sorry, X's) downfall in real-time is quite satisfying.

  • shirro@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    I don't mind reading the ABC news headlines direct or getting it second hand from lemmy posts to aussie.zone. I find the Twitter/X model annoying and a waste of time and Mastodon is only a little better. Too much noise. It is a shame they recently killed their RSS feeds as it was the OG fediverse and I could see myself going back to using an RSS reader as the rest of the Internet keeps getting shittier.