King County Executive Ron Sims already put a bullet right between the eyes of Twitter’s street cred, and now the Washington State Department of Transportation has swooped in to pick at its corpse.
WSDOT has set up a Twitter account to keep you updated on accidents and road closures (spoiler warning: don’t bother leaving the house), although it’s not updating very frequently.
This is what happens when useful technology falls into the wrong hands.
[Confidential to the Department of Fish and Wildlife: please stop trying to friend me on Facebook!]
God forbid useful technology be used in a useful way by uncool people!
Since when has Twitter ever been about being cool? The more people that use it like this the better.
Twitter stopped being cool months ago, when scary tyler moore started using it.
Twitter was never cool. But the WSDOT using it actually serves a purpose, which is more than you can say for 90% of its users.
WSDOT is having a smoke right now
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WSDOT is having another smoke
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WSDOT is knocking off for the day, and having a brew
I think I’ve figured out this whole “how does the City decide where to plow/sand?” thing:
Look up the addresses of SDOT employees, then check to see where those fall in proximity to the arterials & streets that have been plowed and sanded.
Seriously, doesn’t it seem like THEY manage to get back and forth to work a little TOO easily?
The WSDOT twitter updates are incessant and useful only in justifying why I refuse to leave my apartment. They should just send the same twitter (tweet?) out every 30 minutes: this sucks, stay home.
@COMTE – I wish that was true. I walked halfway and sat on a sardine-d bus halfway to get to work and will have to do the same thing to get home. I can’t believe you are pissed that some City workers managed to come to work today…no wait, you’re right – the nerve of us to even bother!
If you want real info, here is the snow and ice priority
routes map: http://tinyurl.com/54lcc9
Ditto @1. God forbid we be uncool by being informed and informing others. PS: You guys post news on a blog. So that would pretty much make you all the pot sitting next to the kettle, wouldn’t it?
I thought twitter was hella lame until WSDOT started using it. When I saw this earlier this week i was like oh cool! this can have a neat use besides people telling me shit too short for an LJ post but too long for a facebook status update, blech.
It hasn’t been updated in two hours (as if this post).
Shit. Some poor kid/tech friendly adult tries something new and potentially useful at work, and all you can do is bitch about how Twitter can’t be cool anymore because it’s being utilized by something mainstream and lame. They’re trying new things, dammit. Someday this might lead to something helpful.
Dude, fuck you, Jonah. I get news via twitter hours or days before you ever fucking see it. I’m surprised Anthony Hecht hasn’t pushed for Slog to send your bigger headlines via Twitter, too. search.twitter.com is an a amazing source of realtime news, I’m addicted to it more than news.google.com