The country's largest transportation network began providing service alerts on its Twitter accounts in time for the Thursday evening commute.
The MTA also said last week it was concerned with technical problems that had led to two recent outages of its Twitter alerts service.
The authority said Thursday that it received written assurances from Twitter that reliability on the platform will be guaranteed.The service alert interruption comes as many institutional Twitter users deal with changes Elon Musk has made in an effort to make the service profitable.
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