The MTA announced it will no longer provide service updates on Twitter, saying that the platform is 'no longer reliable' for providing consistent updates.
transportation system, the MTA, announced on Thursday that it will no longer provide real-time service updates on Twitter, saying that the platform is "no longer reliable for providing the consistent updates riders expect."
The MTA's access to Twitter through its API, or Application Programming Interface, was interrupted twice in the past two weeks, a spokesperson for the MTA said. Twitter would start charging a feeTwitter CEO Elon Musk speaks at the ‘Twitter 2.0: From Conversations to Partnerships,’ marketing conference in Miami Beach, Florida, on April 18, 2023.
MTA Acting Chief Customer Shanifah Rieara pointed to other resources that riders can use for real time updates, including text message alerts, the MTA's website, and the MYmta and TrainTime apps.to publish service information and has built redundant tools that provide service alerts in real time," Rieara told Fox Business in a statement.
Twitter’s public relations department responded with an automated reply of a poop emoji when Fox Business requested a comment on the MTA's exit. A woman uses a Metropolitan Transit Authority card to enter the New York Subway system at the Times Square stop in New York.
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